More Support for More-Support
The role of processing constraints on the choice between synthetic and analytic comparative forms
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 compensatory strategy referred to as more -support. The analytic variant is claimed to be better suited to environments of increased processing complexity - presumably owing to its ability to facilitate early phrase structure recognition, the more transparent one-to-one relation between form and function and possibly because the degree marker more…
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- ISBN: 978-90-272-8927-8
- EAN: 9789027289278
- Produktnummer: 22561696
- Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 236 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 4'412 KB
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