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Indefinites in comparatives [PDF]
Natural Language Semantics, 2011 The goal of this paper is to explain the meaning and distribution of indefinites in comparatives, focusing on English some and any and German irgend-indefinites.
M. Aloni, F. Roelofsen
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Phrasal and clausal comparatives in Dutch [PDF]
, 2016 This paper presents a new analysis of Dutch comparatives and argues that they should be classified into phrasal and clausal comparatives (as e.g. Hankamer (1973) argues for English). Arguments for this classification come from differences in case marking
Charlotte Lindenbergh
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Addressing the 'two interface' problem: Comparatives and superlatives
Glossa, 2016 How much meaning can a morpheme have? Syntactic and morphological analyses generally underdetermine when distinctions in meaning between two forms are due to (i) the presence of an additional syntactic head or to (ii) different information coded on the ...
Alexis Wellwood, Ewan Dunbar
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Hidden nominal structures in Japanese clausal comparatives [PDF]
, 2015 Recent studies of Japanese clausal comparatives have yielded several competing theoretical views of their syntax and semantics that have different implications for the issue of crosslinguistic variation in comparative constructions.
Yasutada Sudo
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Similatives are Manners, comparatives are Quantities (except when they aren’t)
Open Linguistics, 2022 This article proposes a fine-grained semantic analysis of similative and comparative constructions within the framework of Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG).
Giomi Riccardo
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Conjunctive and prepositional comparatives in Slovenian [PDF]
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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A Note on Phrasal Comparatives [PDF]
, 2012 This paper investigates the various comparative operators that a language might employ and provides arguments for choosing a particular one. In particular, different phrasal comparatives are contrasted.
S. Beck, Vera Hohaus, Sonja Tiemann
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Vocalic elements and prosody in Slavic comparatives
, 2017 The first part of the article deals with the ablaut pattern(s) that may be reconstructed on the basis of Slavic comparatives. It is claimed that three separate morphological categories (including comparatives) support the interpretation of the vowel o in
Rafał Szeptyński
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Microvariació a les comparatives de l’espanyol
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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Logical Inferences with Comparatives and Generalized Quantifiers [PDF]
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020 Comparative constructions pose a challenge in Natural Language Inference (NLI), which is the task of determining whether a text entails a hypothesis.
Izumi Haruta, K. Mineshima, D. Bekki
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