English Adjectives of Comparison: Lexical and Grammaticalized Uses
Tine Breban
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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Ano:
2010
Edição:
1st
Editora:
De Gruyter Mouton
Idioma:
english
Páginas:
395
ISBN 10:
3110216019
ISBN 13:
9783110216011
Série:
Topics in English Linguistics 63
Arquivo:
PDF, 3.67 MB
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english, 2010