On the Attributive Nature of Superlative
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Ora Matushansky
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Article
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2008
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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**Abstract.** The standard view of superlatives treats them as a subkind of adjectives. However, in many languages, superlatives require the presence of a determiner, even in the predicate position. This leads to an apparent contradiction, since it is independently known that determiners syntactical