Nothing Compares to You
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چکیده
Comparative constructions are a classical topic in semantics. The vast majority of the literature on comparatives, though, is focused on languages like English, French or German. These languages are special in that adjectives take comparative morphology, and in that they allow for comparative phrases as well as clauses. Stassen’s (1985) survey of comparative constructions shows that this is a rare pattern while commonly, languages develop their comparative grammar from older locative constructions. In my paper, I will take one such type of comparative pattern as my starting point and attempt to provide a minimal semantic analysis for this type of construction. In the last section, I will point out potential applications in the analysis of comparatives in English or German. The basic pattern that I will investigate is exemplified, among other languages, in Udmurt (Perm language; ≈ 520.000 native speakers; Russia/Europe) and Mandarin Chinese. These languages posses no (native) comparative morphology, and use only phrasal comparatives. Comparisons are built along a pattern that is roughly similar to (1):
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