English Adjectives of Comparison : Lexical and Grammaticalized Uses.

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]
Subjects:
English language > Adjective.
English language > Grammar.
Grammar, Comparative and general.
English language > Adjective
English language > Grammar
Grammar, Comparative and general
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Summary: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 resource (407 pages).
ISBN:9783110216011
3110216019
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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