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Mapping the Left Periphery of Similative Constructions: Dutch Dialects as a Case Study
LanguagesThe left periphery of non-standard Dutch similative clauses hosts a variety of different elements (such as gelijk “like”, zo “so”, als “as”, and hoe “how”) that can sometimes co-occur following a strict hierarchy that seems to hold in other (non-standard)
Marta Massaia
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Comparative Constructions in Murui (Witotoan, Northwest Amazonia) [PDF]
Linguistic Discovery, 2018 This paper focuses on the forms and functions of various comparative constructions found in Murui, a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia (Colombia, Peru). It analyses different types of comparative construction, their forms and semantics.
Katarzyna I. Wojtylak
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Equative and similative constructions in Chibchan languages [PDF]
Faits de Langues, 2019 The objective of this paper is to offer the first description of equative and similative constructions in twelve Chibchan languages focusing on two typological particularities: first, all the languages share the construction with only an equative standard marker. But, although all the Chibchan languages have SOV constituent order, the constituent order
C. Chamoreau
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Similative and Equative Constructions in Lori Silakhori Dialect [PDF]
نشریه پژوهشهای زبانشناسی, 2022 The concept of comparison is expressed in the form of various linguistic constructions. Among the different types of comparative constructions, we can mention similative and equative constructions.
Farhad Moezzipour, Parisa Najafi
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Semantics and Linguistic Theory, 2022 ‘As if’ constructions have been analyzed as only verbal (Bücking 2017) or idiomatic (Bledin & Srinivas 2019, 2020). We argue that ‘as if’ constructions have the same distribution as any clausal similative (i.e.
Rett, Jessica, Starr, W.
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Diachronic evolution of Russian standard markers kako and aky
Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads, 2021 Modern Russian uses the same marker kak ‘how’ to introduce the standard in equative and similative constructions. Historical grammars claim that the same polysemy is found in Old Russian, where three markers, kako, aky and jako, are used interchangeably.
Irina Kobozeva, Natalia Serdobolskaya
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Comparison in Kambaata: Superiority, Equality and Similarity
Linguistic Discovery, 2018 This paper is an in-depth study of the expression of comparison in Kambaata, a Highland East Cushitic language of Ethiopia. It discusses not only quantitative comparison, i.e. comparison of relative and absolute inequality and comparison of equality, but
Yvonne Treis
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Similative, equative, and comparative constructions in Beja (North-Cushitic) [PDF]
, 2017 This paper deals with the various syntactic strategies used for the expression of similarity, equality and comparison in Beja in a comparative and typological perspective. It shows that the origin of the comparative marker is related to the universal quantifier, a rare strategy crosslinguistically.
Vanhove, Martine
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Echo Construction and Ad hoc Categories: Semantics of Group Reference in Magahi
Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, 2023 Recent studies in the domain of heterogeneous plural indicate homogeneous and heterogeneous categories as two separate functional mechanisms. Given the strategic usage of language, the paper locates the pluralizing strategies in speech context and ...
Chandan Kumar
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Narrativised simile and emotional responses to Brexit
Russian Journal of Linguistics, 2021 This study looks at two figurative ways in which popular media and social media represent the publics response to the process of implementing Brexit. Specifically, it contrasts analogies, which construe the nature of Brexit in terms of the nature of the ...
Barbara Dancygier
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