Superlatives USA

Superlatives USA
Author: Melissa Louise Jones
Publisher: Capital Books
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2005
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9781931868853

A collection of superlative facts about the U.S. includes the biggest tricycle, sunniest city, fastest glacier, most secure prison, biggest ball of twine, largest door, smallest church, and more.

Most Likely to Succeed

Most Likely to Succeed
Author: Jennifer Echols
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2015-08-04
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1442474521

"Sawyer and Kaye fall in love despite hating each other"--

Better Than Great

Better Than Great
Author: Arthur Plotnik
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2011-07-12
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1573446815

A veritable "tko of terminology," Better Than Great is the essential guide for describing the extraordinary — the must have reference for anyone wishing to rise above tired superlatives. Deft praise encourages others to feel as we do, share our enthusiasms. It rewards deserving objects of admiration. It persuades people to take certain actions. It sells things. Sadly, in this "age of awesome," our words and phrases of acclaim are exhausted, all but impotent. Even so, we find ourselves defaulting to such habitual choices as good, great, and terrific, or substitute the weary synonyms that tuble our of a thesaurus — superb, marvelous, outstanding, and the like. The piling on of intensifers such as the now-silly "super," only makes matters worse and negative modifiers render our common parlance nearly tragic. Until now. Arthur Plotnik, the wunderkind of word-wonks is, without mincing, proffering a well knit wellspring of worthy and wondrous words to rescue our worn-down usage. Plotnik is both hella AND hecka up to the task of rescuing the English language and offers readers the chance to never be at a loss for words!

Majority Quantification and Quantity Superlatives

Majority Quantification and Quantity Superlatives
Author: Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2021-03-31
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0192508768

This book investigates the syntax and semantics of proportional most and other majority quantifiers across languages. Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin and Ion Giurgea draw on data from around 40 languages to demonstrate the existence of two distinct semantic types of most: a distributive type, which compares cardinalities of sets of atoms, and a cumulative type, which involves measuring plural and mass entities with respect to a whole. On the syntactic side, the most significant difference is between partitive and non-partitive configurations: certain majority quantifiers are specific to partitive constructions, while others are also allowed in non-partitives. The volume also explores complex expressions of the type the largest part and nominal quantifiers of the type the majority. The authors argue in favour of a quantificational analysis of most, in contrast to many recent studies, but adopt a bipartition-cum-superlative analysis for the largest part. The volume is a large-scale crosslinguistic investigation, offering typological insights as well as case studies from a range of languages, including German, Romanian, Hungarian, Hindi, and Syrian Arabic. The findings have implications for the study of number marking, partitivity, kind reference, (in)definiteness marking, and other crucial issues in linguistic theory.