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Smaller than small comparatives: the case of Basque
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2018 Adjectival comparatives like txiki baino txikiago ‘smaller than small’ in Basque exhibit some striking properties that present a challenge for previous analyses of inequality comparatives. The research on this unstudied type of adjectival comparatives in
Laura Vela-Plo
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Conjunctive and prepositional comparatives in Slovenian
Linguistica, 2010 The paper deals with the distribution of conjunctive and prepositional comparative structures in Slovenian. They are introduced by the complementiser kot and the preposition od, respectively. Comparative structures are categorised along three dimensions:
Sašo Živanović
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Microvariació a les comparatives de l’espanyol [PDF]
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2013 Si bé les comparatives de desigualtat amb el marcador que (Pedro es más inteligente que yo) han rebut molta atenció en l’estudi de l’espanyol (e.g., Bolinger 1950, Plann 1984, Sáez del Álamo 1990, Gutiérrez Ordóñez 1994, Romero Cambrón 1998, Brucart 2003
Iván Ortega-Santos
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Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads, 2021 Rather exceptionally among European languages, English has two standard markers, namely as and like, which make a formal distinction between equative and similative constructions.
Martina Irsara
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Revisiting gradability in American Sign Language (ASL)
Glossa, 2023 This paper addresses gradability in American Sign Language (ASL). The literature has argued that languages may or may not introduce degree variables, i.e., there is cross-linguistic variation as to whether languages should be analyzed as degree- or ...
Christopher Kurz +3 more
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Multi-headed comparatives in Portuguese
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2005 This paper aims at offering a global picture of the subtype of comparative constructions known as ‘multi-headed comparatives’ (from the fact that they exhibit more than one comparative operator in semantic interdependence).
Rui Marques
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An experimental approach to case marking in Romanian elliptical comparatives [PDF]
Studii de Lingvistica, 2022 The main goal of this paper is to experimentally assess the case marking alternation on the subject remnant in Romanian gapped comparatives, in order to illustrate the limits of introspective informal judgments as the sole source of data and to show ...
Gabriela Bîlbîie
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Logos: Revista de Lingüística, Literatura y Filosofía, 2017 While written corrective feedback (WCF) has proven to be effective for the treatment of certain grammatical structures (Ferris & Roberts, 2001), there are still many factors that hinder the achievement of categorical outcomes. Some of these relate to the
Belén Muñoz, Anita Ferreira
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Porównania w listach emigracyjnych Joachima Lelewela pisanych do przyjaciół i znajomych
Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Linguistica, 2023 The subject of this study is comparisons extracted from Joachim Lelewel’s Polish‑language émigré epistolary prose addressed to acquaintances and friends.
Violetta Jaros
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Some peculiarities of comparative constructions in Nivacle
Linguistic Discovery, 2018 Nivacle, an under-studied Mataguayo language from the Gran Chaco, displays a bewildering variety of typological rarities, for instance in the realms of possession, verbal alignment, predicative possession and applicatives (Fabre 2004, 2009-2010, 2012 ...
Alain Fabre
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