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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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter; Table of contents; Introduction; 1. Constructing a dynamic functional combinatory model of the English NP; 2. Grammaticalization and subjectification in the English NP; 3. English adjectives of general comparison; 4. The grammaticalization hypothesis; 5. The role of subjectivity and subjectification in the grammaticalization of prenominal adjectives of comparison; 6. Adjectives of difference; 7. Adjectives of identity; 8. Adjectives of similarity; 9. Adjectives of comparison in postnominal position; 10. Diachronic corpus study of six adjectives of comparison.
  • 11. Diachronic corpus study of six adjectives of difference12. Summary; Backmatter.

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