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English Adjectives of Comparison : Lexical and Grammaticalized Uses.
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, dei...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
Walter de Gruyter,
2010.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
| Colección: | Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (407 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9783110216011 3110216019 |