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The Importance of Inflection in Construction Grammar
In English, we have different comparative form constructions in one language. And they seem to apply to different categories of adjectives. But mainly it's just European languages that will use a specific comparative form of an adjective. So if you hunt in the right places, you can see that. If we look at those on this podcast, we're just kind of hitting certain reference points. We should be looking at morphosintax when we want to take a global perspective on cross-ingwist ing variation.