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English Adjectives of Comparison: Lexical and Grammaticalized Uses (repost)

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Date: 9 Feb 2017 21:10:19
English Adjectives of Comparison: Lexical and Grammaticalized Uses (repost)

English Adjectives of Comparison: Lexical and Grammaticalized Uses by Tine Breban
English | 2010 | ISBN: 3110205807 | 395 pages | PDF | 2,1 MB

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.

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