In:A Construction Grammar of the English Language: CASA – a Constructionist Approach to Syntactic Analysis
Thomas Herbst and Thomas Hoffmann
[Cognitive Linguistics in Practice 5] 2024
► pp. 162–175
Chapter 7Using adjectives to evaluate, describe and compare
Published online: 24 October 2024
https://doi.org/10.1075/clip.5.c7
https://doi.org/10.1075/clip.5.c7
Article outline
- 7.1Adjectives and adverbs
- 7.1.1Uses of adjectives
- 7.1.2The adjective construction
- 7.1.3The premodifier-of-noun construction
- 7.1.4Item-relatedness in attributive and predicative uses
- 7.2Expressing degree
- 7.2.1Modifier-of-adjective constructions
- 7.2.1.1Premodifier constructions
- 7.2.1.2Postmodifier constructions
- 7.2.1.3Discontinuous modifier constructions
- 7.2.2Expressing maximum degree
- 7.2.1Modifier-of-adjective constructions
- 7.3Collocational parallels between adverb-adjective and adjective-noun patterns
- 7.4Comparing things
- 7.4.1The comparative construction
- 7.4.2The more-than-comparison construction
- 7.4.3Ways of expressing difference and likeness
