@article{BacskaiAtkari2016,
  author    = {Bacskai-Atkari, Julia},
  title     = {Towards a cross-linguistic typology of marking polarity in embedded degree clauses},
  series = {Acta linguistica Hungarica : an international journal of linguistics},
  volume    = {63},
  journal   = {Acta linguistica Hungarica : an international journal of linguistics},
  publisher = {Akad{\~A}©miai Kiad{\~A}³},
  address   = {Budapest},
  issn      = {1216-8076},
  doi       = {10.1556/064.2016.63.4.1},
  pages     = {389 -- 409},
  year      = {2016},
  abstract  = {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.},
  language  = {en}
}