Unclear Predication in the Construction

This paper examines Evaluative Adjectives (in short: EAs) like brave, clever, crazy, foolish, silly, wise when followed by to + infinive as in (1) or (2):(1) C8T 2147 I suppose I'm silly to worry about that. (Examples from the BNC)(2) EU 1623 You’d be crazy to sell today. Intuitively, this cons...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Christopher DESURMONT
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA) 2012-03-01
Series:E-REA
Subjects:
Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/erea/2368
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!