Comparative structures in English

Bibliographic Data

ID10140593
AuthorsRobin N Campbell (University of Edinburgh, corresponding author), R J Wales (University of Edinburgh)
Year1969
Volume5
Issue2
Pages215-251
Publication date1969-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Linguistics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-2267 • E-ISSN: 1469-7742
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0022226700002255
OpenAlexW2047266781
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited20

Linguistics, epistemology and psychology share many common interests; for instance, an interest in the learning of language, in the nature of the fundamental units of which linguistic systems are composed, in the correspondence between language operations, logical operations and intellectual operations. The phenomenon of COMPARISON falls under the latter rubric, as do, for instance, NEGATION, ASSERTION and PREDICATION. In the literature of these three disciplines we find ample evidence of an interest in the latter three phenomena, but there has been surprisingly little discussion of comparison. We say, ‘surprisingly’, since of these four operations comparison might well be held to be the most important. In any kind of classification the fundamental intellectual activity is the comparing of one object, event, etc. with another or with others. Further, to adopt the terminology of psychology, our behaviour in any situation must be governed to some extent by the recognition, whether implicit or explicit, of similarities and differences between that situation and others with which we have had to deal

Assertion · Cognitive science · Epistemology · Event (particle physics · Linguistics · Mathematics education · Negation · Object (grammar · Phenomenon · Rubric · Terminology · Computer Science · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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