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Comparative Correlatives Comparatively

Linguistic Inquiry, 2005
The comparative correlative construction (The more you eat, the fatter you get) has received sporadic attention in the literature, with few concrete results when it comes to our understanding of the syntax of the construction. This article analyzes comparative correlatives as well-behaved, crosslinguistically consistent correlative constructions whose
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Comparative Expectations

Studia Logica, 2014
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Comparing Comparatives: The Argumentative Force of Comparative Quantifiers

Corpus Pragmatics, 2018
This study investigates the difference between more than n and at least n + 1. It is observed that these two quantifiers can generate different implicatures in intensional contexts due to their exhaustivity properties. Building on theoretical notions of argumentation in discourse, it is proposed that more than n, but not at least n + 1, is associated ...
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Comparing Ancient Worlds: Comparative History as Comparative Advantage

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013
The expansion of the system of higher education in China has led to growing interest in the study of western antiquity. This development opens up new opportunities for Chinese academics. This paper argues that they are now in a good position to embrace and promote the comparative study of ancient civilizations in eastern and western Eurasia.
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Comparing the Comparers

Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 1981
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“Compare to” or “Compare with”?

Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, 1994
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THE COMPARATIVE COMPARED

Journal of Semantics, 1984
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Comparative informatics

Interactions, 2011
Bonnie A. Nardi, Ravi K. Vatrapu, Torkil Clemmensen   +2 more
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Comparing Slavic comparatives

Abstract This chapter discusses comparative adjectives in Ukrainian, Belarusian, and Polish, which are formed by adding one of the comparative suffixes: -iš or -š in Ukrainian, -ej and -ejš in Belarusian, and -ej and -sz in Polish. The three languages have complex adjectives that have an augment (additional morphology -n/-k/-ok) that ...
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To Compare or Not to Compare?

Dialectics and Humanism, 1979
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