Comparatives and inversion in English: A (necessarily) diachronic account
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The paper argues that, based on insight gained from the syntax of earlier English, comparative inversion (CI) reveals itself as a far simpler process than what is standardly assumed. Starting from the insight of a suggestion made by Haeberli (2002) and adapting it to comparatives, the major syntactic diachronic developments of CI are explored. This conference paper is available in University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics: http://repository.upenn.edu/pwpl/ vol14/iss1/14 U. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 14.1, 2008 Comparatives and Inversion in English: A (Necessarily) Diachronic Account
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