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The Review of English Studies Advance Access originally published online on March 11, 2007
The Review of English Studies 2006 57(232):623-664; doi:10.1093/res/hgl120
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© The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press 2007; all rights reserved

On The Nature and Distribution of English Double Periphrastic Comparison

Victorina González-Díaz

University of Liverpool


  Abstract

Perhaps because of their ‘marginal’ status, double comparative forms (e.g. more better, worser, lesser) have received scarce scholarly attention. The present study aims at shedding more light on the history of double comparison by means of a corpus-based analysis of double periphrastic comparatives (e.g. more better). The article sets out to explore the linguistic and the social distribution of double periphrastic forms across periods and the way in which the two developments may be interrelated. The data from these analyses will at a later stage constitute a suitable starting point for an investigation of the reasons behind their appearance in the language and their position within the system of comparison in English.


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