Similatives are Manners, comparatives are Quantities (except when they aren’t)

Giomi, Riccardo

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Similatives are Manners, comparatives are Quantities (except when they aren’t)

Giomi, Riccardo

2022 • In Open Linguistics, 8 (1), p. 650-674

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Giomi, Riccardo ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de langues modernes : linguistique, littérature et traduction > Linguistique synchronique anglaise

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English

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Similatives are Manners, comparatives are Quantities (except when they aren’t)

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30 November 2022

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Open Linguistics

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De Gruyter, Poland

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Modification in Functional Discourse Grammar

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