English Adjectives of Comparison : : Lexical and Grammaticalized Uses / / Tine Breban.
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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2010] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] ,
63 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (395 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of contents
- Introduction
- Part I. Theoretical argumentation for the grammaticalization and subjectification hypothesis of English adjectives of comparison in the English NP
- 1. Constructing a dynamic functional combinatory model of the English NP
- 2. Grammaticalization and subjectification in the English NP
- 3. English adjectives of general comparison
- 4. The grammaticalization hypothesis
- 5. The role of subjectivity and subjectification in the grammaticalization of prenominal adjectives of comparison
- Part II. Synchronic corpus study
- 6. Adjectives of difference
- 7. Adjectives of identity
- 8. Adjectives of similarity
- 9. Adjectives of comparison in postnominal position
- Part III. Diachronic corpus studies
- 10. Diachronic corpus study of six adjectives of comparison
- 11. Diachronic corpus study of six adjectives of difference
- 12. Summary
- Backmatter