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Published 2008.
The present work intends to contribute to a better understanding of the English system of degree by means of a study of a number of aspects of the evolution of adjective comparison that have ...
Published 2008.
The present work intends to contribute to a better understanding of the English system of degree by means of a study of a number of aspects of the evolution of adjective comparison that have so far either been considered controversial or not been accounted for. As will be shown, the diachronic aspects analysed will also have synchronic implications. Furthermore, unlike previous synchronic and diachronic accounts of adjective comparison, this monograph does not concentrate on the 'standard' comparative strategies (i.e. inflectional and periphrastic forms) only, but also deals with double periphrastic comparatives, thus providing an analysis of the whole range of comparative structures in English.
