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Empirical data from computerized corpora buttress the claim that cognitively complex environments favour the analytic comparative (more proud) over its synthetic variant (prouder). The more-variant is better suited to environments of increased processing com¬plexity ? presumably owing to the greater explicitness produced by the additional lexeme, the more transparent one-to-one relation between form and function and possi¬bly because more introducing a Degree Phrase can serve as a structural ...Empirical data from computerized corpora buttress the claim that cognitively complex environments favour the analytic comparative (more proud) over its synthetic variant (prouder). The more-variant is better suited to environments of increased processing com¬plexity ? presumably owing to the greater explicitness produced by the additional lexeme, the more transparent one-to-one relation between form and function and possi¬bly because more introducing a Degree Phrase can serve as a structural sig¬nal foreshad¬owing cognitive complexity. Once the competing and syner¬getic effects of several potentially interacting determinants have been ac¬counted for, an in-depth treatment of argument complexity reveals that the underlying force pertaining to all determinants that invoke the analytic comparative is to mitigate increased processing demands ? a strategy referred to as more-support. A bird?s eye view of 21 determinants from all core levels of linguistic analysis illustrates that the different degrees of processing effort mirrored in comparative alternation emanate from struc¬tures that are phonologically, morphologically, syntactically, semantically and prag¬matically complex.» weiterlesen» einklappen

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