More support for more-support : the role of processing constraints on the choice between synthetic and analytic comparative forms /

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This book provides the most comprehensive account so far of novel and hitherto unexplained factors operative in the choice between synthetic (prouder) and analytic (more proud) comparatives. It argues that the underlying motivation in using the analytic variant is to mitigate processing demands - a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mondorf, Britta, 1963-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2009.
Colección:Studies in language variation ; v. 4.
Temas:
English language > Comparison.
English language > Adjective.
Comparison (Grammar)
Comparaison (Grammaire)
comparison.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Syntax.
English language > Adjective
English language > Comparison
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Theoretical preliminaries
  • Methodological preliminaries
  • More-support in phonology
  • More-support in morphology
  • More-support in the lexicon
  • More-support in syntax
  • More-support in semantics
  • More-support in pragmatics/iconicity
  • The emergence of more-support in diachrony
  • More-support in British and American English
  • Conclusion
  • Theoretical implications and outlook
  • References.

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