Comparatives and inversion in English: A (necessarily) diachronic account
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University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics
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Gergel, Remus
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The paper argues that, based on insight gained from the syntax of earlier English, comparative inversion (CI) reveals itself as a far simpler process than what is standardly assumed. Starting from the insight of a suggestion made by Haeberli (2002) and adapting it to comparatives, the major syntactic diachronic developments of CI are explored.
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2008-04-23
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University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics
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