English Adjectives of Comparison: Lexical and Grammaticalized Uses

Tine Breban

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Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation Linguistics and language evolution Historical Linguistics and Language Studies

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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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