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How to be positive

CAHA, Pavel, Karen DE CLERCQ, Michal STARKE and Guido VANDEN WYNGAERD

Basic information

Original name

How to be positive

Authors

CAHA, Pavel (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Karen DE CLERCQ (56 Belgium), Michal STARKE (756 Switzerland, belonging to the institution) and Guido VANDEN WYNGAERD (56 Belgium)

Edition

GLOW 42, May 7–11 2019, Oslo, 2019

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Prezentace na konferencích

Field of Study

60203 Linguistics

Country of publisher

Norway

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/19:00107393

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

Keywords in English

adjective; positive; syncretism; comparative; *ABA

Tags

Tags

International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 20/3/2020 12:05, prof. Mgr. Pavel Kosek, Ph.D.

Abstract

V originále

Recent literature has seen the rise of interest in *ABA patterns. These constrain form identity between three (or more) categories. For instance, Bobaljik (2012) observes that in the triplet positive–comparative–superlative (pos–cmpr–sprl), pos and sprl are never the same to the exclusion of cmpr. Bobaljik (and much related work) interprets these patterns in terms of structural containment: if the structure of sprl properly contains cmpr, and if cmpr contains pos, *ABA follows. However, Bobaljik and Sauerland (2018) argue that there are more ways to derive *ABA patterns, and that a careful study of containment patterns is crucial. Our paper revisits Bobaljik’s original case for containment (adjectival degree morphology), and suggests that a more symmetric view on the relationship between pos and cmpr is needed, crucially without giving up the possibility of deriving *ABA.

Links

GA17-10144S, research and development project
Name: Lineární kontiguita v jazyce
Investor: Czech Science Foundation