Superlative Construction

Part of language Late Modern English (1800-now)
Meaning of the construction Indicating that an ATTRIBUTE applies maximally or minimally to an ATTRIBUTEE.
comment Original entry on https://constructicon.de/constructions/114
Comparative Concept (cxn) modification construction
referring phrase

Construction elements

Research

Research Question Finding
Comparing constructions cross-linguistically — Connecting constructicons Comparative concepts can partially be applied to CASA Constructicon.

Metadata

Date Created 2026-03-06
Annotator Elizaveta Petrenko

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