Out on Good Syntactic Behavior
“It would be refining too much, perhaps, even considering his monomania, to hint that his vindictiveness towards the White Whale might have possibly extended itself in some degree to all Sperm Whales, and that the more monsters he slew by so much the more he multiplied the chances that each subseque...
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| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.134.1369 http://www.ling.umd.edu/publications/theses/taylor.pdf |
| Summary: | “It would be refining too much, perhaps, even considering his monomania, to hint that his vindictiveness towards the White Whale might have possibly extended itself in some degree to all Sperm Whales, and that the more monsters he slew by so much the more he multiplied the chances that each subsequently encountered whale would prove to be the hated one he hunted.” Herman Melville, Moby Dick (ch. 46), 1851 Some syntactic phenomena do not lend themselves to an obvious explanation. A case in point is the topic of this paper, comparative correlatives. A few typical examples from English of this expression are found in (1). Previously in the literature they have gone by |
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