greater than I am" versus "greater than myself
If I look in the corpus of contemporary American English, I mostly find
the ... greater than I am/he is/etc. ... version. But there are a couple
of instances, even in academic texts, of the sort ... greater than
myself/himself etc. ... sort.
As far as I understand the rule, comparative + than is followed by a
clause - i.e., subject and verb. Where do the reflexive pronoun ...self
instances come from?
Am I missing something, or are they just falling for the "looks like an
object position, so let's use an object pronoun" trap?
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