TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bacskai-Atkari, Julia
T1  - Towards a cross-linguistic typology of marking polarity in embedded degree clauses
JF  - Acta linguistica Hungarica : an international journal of linguistics
N2  - 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.
KW  - comparative subclauses
KW  - complementisers
KW  - CP-periphery
KW  - negative polarity
KW  - overtness
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1556/064.2016.63.4.1
SN  - 1216-8076
SN  - 1588-2624
VL  - 63
SP  - 389
EP  - 409
PB  - Akadémiai Kiadó
CY  - Budapest
ER  -