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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"superlatives"”.
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Amount Superlatives and Measure Phrases
… provides a novel analysis of quantity superlatives by bringing together research on three interrelated topics: superlative ambiguity, semantic constraints on measure constructions, and the internal structure of the extended nominal phrase. I analyze the quantity words, <em>most, …
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Glorified Daughters: The Glorification of Daughters on Roman Epitaphs
… the time. It primarily focuses on descriptors, superlatives used, the dedicators who commissioned the work, girls who died before their wedding, and ages of girls which have excesses in the months or days she lived as inscribed on her epitaph.
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Lessons from the underground : the pedagogic possibility of urban infrastructure
There is no end of superlatives regarding Boston's Central Artery/Tunnel project [CA/T] , also known as "The Big Dig". Each day, as the budget grows and the construction progresses, another benchmark is passed. It has been ubiquitous in the city for over a decade, and yet, the goal of this …
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The emergence of the Romance languages from Latin: A case for creolization effects.
… Likewise, the synthetic comparatives and superlatives of Latin did not survive into Romance, but those of Classical Greek survived into Modern Greek. Comparison of the two verb systems yields a similar result: whereas Romance severely reduced Latin verbal morphology (most importantly, the …
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Superlative degree clauses : evidence from NPI licensing
… and an analysis will be presented that brings superlatives in line with comparatives in finding its semantic restrictor in the overt syntax, in the form of a degree clause. The first puzzle comes from an observation about the predictions of von Fintel's 1999 theory of NPI licensing when …
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Making Waves : the past futures of Azerbaijan's islands
… and urban design that relies on a jargon of superlatives, the signature of starchitects, and the power of mass media image circulation to project a utopic vision. The thesis uses the island as a site for investigation and experimentation. Both a geographical entity and a widely-used metaphor, …