English Adjectives of Comparison: Lexical and Grammaticalized Uses (Topics in English Linguistics) English | 395 pages | ISBN-10: 3110205807 | PDF | 3.67 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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English Adjectives of Comparison: Lexical and Grammaticalized Uses (Topics in English Linguistics)
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