Expressing equality and similarity in English, Italian, and Ladin: Interlingual contrastive features and micro-variation
Rather exceptionally among European languages, English has two standard markers, namely as and like, which make a formal distinction between equative and similative constructions. It is well known that clauses with as and phrasal adjuncts with like tend to be carefully distinguished in British forma...
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University of Bologna
2021-08-01
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| Series: | Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads |
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| Online Access: | https://typologyatcrossroads.unibo.it/article/view/13428 |