English adjectives of comparison: lexical and grammaticalized uses
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Main Author: Breban, Tine 1980- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York De Gruyter Mouton 2010
Series:Topics in English linguistics 63
Topics in English linguistics 63
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Online Access:DE-19
DE-706
DE-824
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
The book is concerned with a largely unrecognized grammaticalization process: deictification, or the development from quality-attributing to deictically used adjectives in the English noun phrase. On the basis of the synchronic and diachronic corpus-study of six English adjectives of comparison, deictification is shown to involve unstudied variants of subjectification and decategorialization.
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 395 p)
ISBN:9783110205800
9783110216011

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