On the nature and distribution of English double periphrastic comparison. González-Díaz, V. The Review of English Studies, 57(232):623–664, November, 2006.
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Perhaps because of their ‘marginal’ status, double comparative forms (e.g. more better, worser, lesser) have received scarce scholarly attention. The present study aims at shedding more light on the history of double comparison by means of a corpus-based analysis of double periphrastic comparatives (e.g. more better). The article sets out to explore the linguistic and the social distribution of double periphrastic forms across periods and the way in which the two developments may be interrelated. The data from these analyses will at a later stage constitute a suitable starting point for an investigation of the reasons behind their appearance in the language and their position within the system of comparison in English.
@article{gonzalez-diaz_nature_2006,
	title = {On the nature and distribution of {English} double periphrastic comparison},
	volume = {57},
	issn = {0034-6551, 1471-6968},
	url = {http://res.oxfordjournals.org/content/57/232/623},
	doi = {10.1093/res/hgl120},
	abstract = {Perhaps because of their ‘marginal’ status, double comparative forms (e.g. more better, worser, lesser) have received scarce scholarly attention. The present study aims at shedding more light on the history of double comparison by means of a corpus-based analysis of double periphrastic comparatives (e.g. more better). The article sets out to explore the linguistic and the social distribution of double periphrastic forms across periods and the way in which the two developments may be interrelated. The data from these analyses will at a later stage constitute a suitable starting point for an investigation of the reasons behind their appearance in the language and their position within the system of comparison in English.},
	language = {en},
	number = {232},
	urldate = {2016-06-10},
	journal = {The Review of English Studies},
	author = {González-Díaz, Victorina},
	month = nov,
	year = {2006},
	keywords = {Double comparatives},
	pages = {623--664},
}

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