English Adjectives of Comparison : Lexical and Grammaticalized Uses.

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, dei...

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Main Author: Breban, Tine
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, 2010.
Edition:2nd ed.
Series:Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]
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