This chapter provides a chronological overview of the treatment of degree morphology in the generative literature from the 1970s until today. Starting out from Ultan's (1972) four basic degrees of comparison, it initially widens the scope to consider other types of degree morphology. It then hones i...

A nanosyntactic approach to Dutch deadjectival verbs

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How to be positive

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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...

Conditional clauses, Main Clause Phenomena and the syntax of polarity emphasis

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Lieven Danckaert et al. (2012)

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This paper addresses two properties of conditional clauses: (i) their incompatibility with Main Clause Phenomena, exemplified by English argument fronting, and (ii) the unavailability of Speaker Oriented Adverbs (Ernst 2009) (SpOA). The paper elaborates the hypothesis (Bhatt and Pancheva 2002, 2006)...

Preposition+determiner contractions in French and German

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Patricia Cabredo Hofherr (2012)

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