Reflections on the grammatical category of the than element in English comparative constructions: A corpus-based systemic functional approach
It is generally accepted that in comparative constructions, when the clausal element compared is the subject of the matrix clause, the personal pronoun following than can be either nominative which is usually used in formal English, where than is considered as a conjunction, or accusative which is u...
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Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2015-01-01
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2215039015300035 |