Prosody and absolute vs. relative uses of English and Slovene adjectives

The paper explores the role prosody plays in distinguishing two types of uses of adjectival structures in English and Slovene. In both languages, adjectival structures can be used with an internal standard, yielding an absolute interpretation, or with an external standard (typically comparing the n...

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Main Author: Monika Kavalir
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: University of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani) 2017-12-01
Series:Linguistica
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Online Access:https://journals.uni-lj.si/linguistica/article/view/5615