For each of the adjectives below, check in COCA whether you can find the morphological comparative and superlative, the periphrastic comparative and superlative, or both. For example, for the adjective pure, you'd look for purer, more pure, purest, and most pure. See what you find and discuss the factors that seem to influence the choice of the morphological and periphrastic forms.
weird
winning (as in $a$ winning team)
happy
famous
1. As we will see in Chapter 11, not all morphologists believe that there is a strict - or even fuzzy separation between morphology and syntax.
2. The relative case is the case of the transitive subject in West Greenlandic.
3. T/A means 'tense/aspect'; D O means 'direct object'.
4. Bauer $(1993: 396-7)$ actually shows that there are several suffixes that make verbs passive in Maori.