English Adjectives Of Comparison: Lexical And Grammaticalized Uses (topics In English Linguistics)
by Tine Breban /
2010 / English / PDF
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Product Description: 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.
