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@proceedings{1529856, author = {Caha, Pavel and De Clercq, Karen and Starke, Michal and Vanden Wyngaerd, Guido}, booktitle = {GLOW 42, May 7–11 2019, Oslo}, keywords = {adjective; positive; syncretism; comparative; *ABA}, language = {eng}, title = {How to be positive}, url = {https://glowlinguistics.org/42/overall-programme/}, year = {2019} }
TY - CONF ID - 1529856 AU - Caha, Pavel - De Clercq, Karen - Starke, Michal - Vanden Wyngaerd, Guido PY - 2019 TI - How to be positive KW - adjective KW - positive KW - syncretism KW - comparative KW - *ABA UR - https://glowlinguistics.org/42/overall-programme/ L2 - https://glowlinguistics.org/42/overall-programme/ N2 - 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. ER -
CAHA, Pavel, Karen DE CLERCQ, Michal STARKE and Guido VANDEN WYNGAERD. How to be positive. In \textit{GLOW 42, May 7–11 2019, Oslo}. 2019.
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