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How to be positive

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VANDEN WYNGAERD Guido STARKE Michal DE CLERCQ Karen CAHA Pavel

Rok publikování 2020
Druh Článek v odborném periodiku
Časopis / Zdroj Glossa : a journal of general linguistics
Fakulta / Pracoviště MU

Filozofická fakulta

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Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.1114
Klíčová slova adjectives; gradability; positive; comparative; containment
Popis In this paper, we discuss a cross-linguistically rare pattern of comparative formation found in Slovak. This pattern is theoretically interesting, because it violates a candidate universal on the relationship between the positive and the comparative degree. The universal, discussed in Grano & Davis (2018), says that the comparative is always either identical to, or derived from, the positive degree. This universal is violated by a number of adjectives in Slovak. These adjectives have a suffix -k in the positive degree, which is absent in the comparative. We capture this pattern in terms of a non-containment structure of the positive and the comparative degrees and the nanosyntax model of spellout (Starke 2009 et seq.).
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