English adjectives of comparison lexical and grammaticalized uses /

The book is concerned with a hitherto underresearched grammaticalization process: the development from quality-attributing adjective to determiner in the English noun phrase. It takes a bottom-up approach, based on extensive synchronic and diachronic corpus studies of six English adjectives of compa...

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Main Author: Breban, Tine, 1980-
Format: Electronic Online Resource eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter Mouton, 2010.
Series:Topics in English linguistics ; 63.
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Online Access:Ebook Central Academic Complete
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