Unclear Predication in the <Evaluative Adjective +Infinitive> Construction
This paper examines Evaluative Adjectives (in short: EAs) like brave, clever, crazy, foolish, silly, wise when followed by to + infinive as in (1) or (2): (1) C8T 2147 I suppose I'm silly to worry about that. (Examples from the BNC) (2) EU 1623 You’d be crazy to sell today. Intuitively, this &...
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| Language: | English |
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Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA)
2012-03-01
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| Series: | E-REA |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/erea/2368 |