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...
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| Language: | English |
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Berlin :
Walter de Gruyter,
2010.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Series: | Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter; Table of contents; Introduction; 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; 6. Adjectives of difference; 7. Adjectives of identity; 8. Adjectives of similarity; 9. Adjectives of comparison in postnominal position; 10. Diachronic corpus study of six adjectives of comparison.
- 11. Diachronic corpus study of six adjectives of difference12. Summary; Backmatter.