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English adjective comparison: A historical perspective. John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2008.

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More support for more-support: The role of processing constraints on the choice between synthetic and analytic comparative forms. John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2009.

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Lundbladh, Carl-Erik. Adjektivets komparation i svenskan: En semantisk beskrivning. Lund University Press, 1988.

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Adjectives and comparison in English: A semantic study. Longman, 1985.

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Varnhorn, Beate. Adjektive und Komparation: Studien zur Syntax, Semantik und Pragmatik adjektivischer Vergleichskonstrukte. G. Narr, 1993.

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Linde-Usiekniewicz, Jadwiga. Określenia wymiarów w języku polskim. Wydano Nakładem Wydziału Polonistyki Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 2000.

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English adjectives of comparison: Lexical and grammaticalized uses. Berlin, 2010.

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Breban, Tine. English adjectives of comparison: Lexical and grammaticalized uses. Berlin, 2010.

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Projecting the adjective: The syntax and semantics of gradability and comparison. Garland, 1999.

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Small, smaller, smallest. Amicus, 2015.

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Tall, taller, tallest. Amicus, 2014.

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Felix, Rebecca. Big, bigger, biggest. Amicus, 2015.

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Long, longer, longest. Amicus, 2015.

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Felix, Rebecca. Short, shorter, shortest. Amicus, 2015.

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The little book of not so. Houghton Mifflin, 2005.

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Heavy, heavier, heaviest. Amicus, 2014.

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Bondaruk, Anna. Comparison in English and Polish adjectives: A syntactic study. Folium, 1998.

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Action, comparison, and change: A study in the semantics of verbs and adjectives. Niemeyer, 1986.

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Walton, Rick. Pig, pigger, piggest: An adventure in comparing. Gibbs Smith, 2011.

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Breban, Tine. English Adjectives of Comparison. DE GRUYTER MOUTON, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110216011.

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Cleary, Brian P. Breezier, cheesier, newest, and bluest: What are comparatives and superlatives? Millbrook Press, 2013.

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Big, bigger, biggest! Henry Holt and Co., 2009.

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Lifanov, Konstantin. The inflection of the Slovak literary language. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1046272.

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The monograph is devoted to a full description of inflection in the Slovak literary language in accordance with the latest changes in the codification, reflected in the "Rules of the Slovak orthography" 2013 Consistently discusses the declination of nouns, adjectives, numerals, pronouns, the formation of degrees of comparison of adjectives and adverbs, and the conjugation of verbs in present, future, past and pluperfect tenses. Types of declension and conjugation are seen primarily in paradigms allocated in the Slovak linguistics, but also additionally provides word paradigms, with some deviations from the basic paradigms. Detail of a doublet form, and their status, including those identified on the basis of national corpus of the Slovak language. Written in accordance with the program on the grammar of the Slovak language, adopted at the philological faculty of Moscow state University named after M. V. Lomonosov.  Designed for students of Slovak as the main language or second foreign language, optional or yourself, for Slavists wide profile and also for owning Slovak language adjustments knowledge of Slovak grammar, in accordance as amended by the latest changes.

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Grammatische und konzeptuelle Aspekte von Dimensionsadjektiven. Akademie-Verlag, 1987.

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Kennedy, Christopher. Projecting the Adjective: The Syntax and Semantics of Gradability and Comparison. Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.

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1942-, Lang Ewald, and Bierwisch Manfred, eds. Dimensional adjectives: Grammatical structure and conceptual interpretation. Springer-Verlag, 1989.

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Alphabest. Kids Can Press, 2012.

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Lassiter, Daniel. Certainty and possibility. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198701347.003.0005.

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This chapter discusses several more epistemic adjectives. Certain and its near-synonym sure are maximum adjectives that combine with proportional and percentage modifiers. A comparison with non-modal adjectives suggests a ratio-scale classification with at least an upper bound. Several lines of evidence indicate that certainty and likelihood are formally closely related. However, there are puzzles around the interpretation of uncertain that indicate that the relation may not be one of identity. I consider three possible analyses, all of which have certain advantages and drawbacks. I then turn to possible, which is often claimed to be non-gradable. Naturalistic data indicate that possibility is a graded concept (e.g., increase the possibility of), and that possible is gradable (e.g., too/very/n% possible). While an analysis in terms of some kind of scalar coercion is technically feasible, the most natural explanation is that possible is a gradable adjective whose scale is closely related to likely’s scale.

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Maiden, Martin. Morphomic patterns, suppletion, and the Romance morphological landscape. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199660216.003.0011.

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This chapter uses especially cases of suppletion in the history of Romance languages to illustrate the role of morphomic patterns in diachrony. It also places Romance verb morphology in the wider context of Romance inflexional morphology, including those of the noun and of the adjective. It observes that suppletion practically never assumes anything but a morphomic distribution and is practically limited to the verb. Comparison is made with some Italo-Romance and Daco-Romance varieties where suppletion is indeed (occasionally) found in the noun and adjective (and is usually not morphomic). The evidence suggests that speakers, faced with different ways of expressing identical lexical meaning, exploit whatever patterns of root allomorphy happen to be already available in the language. In the Romance verb these are only morphomic; in the noun and adjective such patterns are scarcely found at all, but where they are they tend to be aligned with number.

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Rubinstein, Aynat. Straddling the line between attitude verbs and necessity modals. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198718208.003.0007.

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This chapter explores the semantic properties of verbs and adjectives with closely related meanings having to do with desires and goals. I evaluate recent work on verbs of desire (e.g. ‘want’) which has suggested that these attitude predicates require access to multiple alternatives for their interpretation (Villalta 2006, 2008). I argue that this heavy machinery is in fact not required, integrating important insights proposed in this recent work into a quantificational modal analysis of comparison-based attitudes. The proposed analysis highlights the similarities and differences between ‘want’ and ‘necessary’, an adjective that is shown (including naturalistic corpus data) to be primarily goal-oriented and to be semantically dependent to a certain degree on the syntactic configuration it appears in. Whether or not the modality is lexically relativized to an individual is also suggested to play a role in defining the semantic properties of desire- and goal-oriented modal expressions.

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Breban, Tine. English Adjectives of Comparison. De Gruyter, Inc., 2010.

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Lassiter, Daniel. Gradation, scales, and degree semantics. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198701347.003.0001.

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Since many modal expressions in English are overtly gradable, we need to understand gradability in general if we are to understand their semantics. This chapter introduces a number of core notions in the lexical and compositional semantics of gradable expressions, including the distinction between gradability and scalarity, key notions around adjective type and scale structure, and discusses some background issues such as the treatment of comparison classes and vagueness.

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Stickiest, crunchiest, fluffiest: Super superlatives. Lerner Publishing Group, 2016.

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Hoepelman, Jaap. Action, Comparison and Change: A Study in the Semantics of Verbs and Adjectives. De Gruyter, Inc., 1986.

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Streiner, David L., Geoffrey R. Norman, and John Cairney. Scaling responses. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199685219.003.0004.

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This chapter presents various ways of presenting the response options to the respondent. It begins by discussing why dichotomous responses (e.g. yes/no, true/false) are often inadequate. Different alternatives are discussed, including direct estimation methods (e.g. visual analogue scales, adjectival scales, Likert scales), comparative methods (e.g. paired comparisons, Guttman scaling), and econometric methods. It reviews some of the issues that need to be considered in writing the response options, such as whether one should use a unipolar or bipolar scale, how many steps there should be, and whether all the response options need to be labelled. It also covers what statistical tests can legitimately be used with scales. Finally, it compares ratings with rankings, and introduces the method of multidimensional scaling.

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Pinkster, Harm. The Oxford Latin Syntax. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199230563.001.0001.

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Volume II of the Oxford Latin Syntax deals with the syntax and pragmatics of complex sentences in Latin and other topics that transcend the simple clause (which is the content of Volume I). The volume starts with a chapter on subordination in general, followed by chapters on subordinate clauses that function as argument or as satellite in their sentence. Separate chapters are devoted to subordinate clauses governed by nouns and adjectives and to relative clauses. In addition there are chapters on coordination, comparison, secondary predicates, information structure of clauses and sentences including the use of emphatic particles, word order, and various discourse phenomena such as sentence connection. As in Volume I, the description of the Latin material is based upon texts from roughly 200 BC to AD 450. The Latin texts that are discussed are provided with an English translation. Supplements contain further examples to illustrate the main text. The grammatical framework used is mainly that of Functional Grammar but the description is accessible for readers without a modern linguistic background.

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Sawada, Osamu. Counter-expectational scalar adverbs. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198714224.003.0007.

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Chapter 7 investigates the meaning and use of Japanese counter-expectational scalar adverbs—that is, the counter-expectational intensifier yoppodo and the Japanese scale-reversal adverb kaette. It shows that although yoppodo and kaette convey some kind of counter-expectational meaning as lower-level pragmatic scalar modifiers, the way they trigger counter-expectational meaning is quite different. In an adjectival environment, yoppodo semantically intensifies degrees based on extraordinary evidence and conventionally implies that the degree is above the speaker’s expectation. By contrast, kaette reverses the scale of the gradable predicate and conventionally implies that the opposite situation is generally true. It is also proposed that there are two types of counter-expectational expressions that use scalarity: a relative type, which represents “above expectation” (e.g. yoppodo), and a reversal type, which expresses counter-expectation via polarity reversal (e.g. kaette). Comparison with wh-exclamatives, sentence exclamation, and the counter-expectational but is also discussed.

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