Comparative Ellipsis and Variable Binding

It is hard to find a class of natural language phenomena which exhibits more complex interactions between syntax and semantics than comparative constructions. Comparatives come with phrasal or clausal complements. In this paper, we focus on phrasal comparatives, which on first inspection look simpler than the clausal ones, but in fact add a degree of complexity. We will consider predicative comparatives as in (1) as well as attributive comparatives, which come in two versions, a "narrow" reading as in (2) and a "wide" reading as in (3) (referred to in the following with "NRA" and "WRA", respectively).