Towards a cross-linguistic typology of marking polarity in embedded degree clauses
- The article focuses on comparative complementisers in comparative clauses expressing inequality in various languages, with particular attention paid to their role as lexicalising negative polarity. I argue that the relevant property follows from degree semantics, in that the comparative subclause encodes the inequality of the degree expressed by a matrix clausal element and the one expressed by the comparative operator. Just like ordinary negation, this has to be encoded overtly; however, as it does not constitute an instance of genuine clausal negation, the property cannot be encoded by an operator, and hence must be realised on a functional head, which is either the complementiser or a separate polarity head.
Metadaten| Verfasserangaben: | Julia Bacskai-AtkariGND |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1556/064.2016.63.4.1 |
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| ISSN: | 1216-8076 |
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| ISSN: | 1588-2624 |
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| Titel des übergeordneten Werks (Englisch): | Acta linguistica Hungarica : an international journal of linguistics |
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| Verlag: | Akadémiai Kiadó |
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| Verlagsort: | Budapest |
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| Publikationstyp: | Wissenschaftlicher Artikel |
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| Jahr der Erstveröffentlichung: | 2016 |
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| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2016 |
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| Datum der Freischaltung: | 22.03.2020 |
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| Freies Schlagwort / Tag: | CP-periphery; comparative subclauses; complementisers; negative polarity; overtness |
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| Band: | 63 |
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| Seitenanzahl: | 21 |
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| Erste Seite: | 389 |
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| Letzte Seite: | 409 |
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| Fördernde Institution: | German Research Fund (DFG) |
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| Peer Review: | Referiert |
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| Name der Einrichtung zum Zeitpunkt der Publikation: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Exzellenzbereich Kognitionswissenschaften |
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