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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Año:
2010
Edición:
1st
Editorial:
De Gruyter Mouton
Idioma:
english
Páginas:
408
ISBN 10:
3110205807
ISBN 13:
9783110205800
Serie:
Topics in English Linguistics 63
Archivo:
PDF, 2.13 MB
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english, 2010