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Publication details [#4698]

Higgins, E. Tory. 1977. The varying presuppositional nature of comparatives. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 6 (3) : 203–222.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

acceptability | comparative utterance | presupposition | synonymy

Journal WWW

www.kluweronline.com/

Annotation

Report of an investigation of the presuppositional nature of different types of comparatives on the basis of subjects' judgments concerning the synonymity of pairs of comparative statements and the acceptability of single comparative statements.