"the most clutch" (adjectival phrase)

[Dan Goncharoff]

What was it before it was "reanalyzed" as an adjective? I only know it as
an adjective: clutch player, clutch play.

DanG


On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> On Dec 19, 2011, at 1:33 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
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> > At 12/19/2011 11:05 AM, Ronald Butters wrote:
> >> Is the point that this should have been "clutchest" instead?
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> > No.
> > Joel
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> It's that it's been reanalyzed as an adjective, as the superlative
> indicates. "How clutch is he?" would do the same.
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> LH
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> >> On Dec 19, 2011, at 11:02 AM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
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> >> > On Tom Brady yesterday:  "the most clutch quarterback of his era
> >> > reminded everyone why he's still The One."
> >> >
> >> > Michael Silver's Morning Rush, Yahoo Sports Exclusive.
> >> >
> >>
> http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=ms-silver_morning_rush_tom_brady_tim_tebow_121911
> >> >
> >> > Joel
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