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@article{1632376,
author = {Vanden Wyngaerd, Guido and Starke, Michal and De Clercq, Karen and Caha, Pavel},
article_number = {1},
doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.1114},
keywords = {adjectives; gradability; positive; comparative; containment},
language = {eng},
issn = {2397-1835},
journal = {Glossa : a journal of general linguistics},
title = {How to be positive},
url = {https://www.glossa-journal.org/articles/10.5334/gjgl.1114/},
volume = {5},
year = {2020}
}
TY - JOUR
ID - 1632376
AU - Vanden Wyngaerd, Guido - Starke, Michal - De Clercq, Karen - Caha, Pavel
PY - 2020
TI - How to be positive
JF - Glossa : a journal of general linguistics
VL - 5
IS - 1
SP - 1-33
EP - 1-33
SN - 23971835
KW - adjectives
KW - gradability
KW - positive
KW - comparative
KW - containment
UR - https://www.glossa-journal.org/articles/10.5334/gjgl.1114/
N2 - In this paper, we discuss a cross-linguistically rare pattern of comparative formation found in Slovak. This pattern is theoretically interesting, because it violates a candidate universal on the relationship between the positive and the comparative degree. The universal, discussed in Grano & Davis (2018), says that the comparative is always either identical to, or derived from, the positive degree. This universal is violated by a number of adjectives in Slovak. These adjectives have a suffix -k in the positive degree, which is absent in the comparative. We capture this pattern in terms of a non-containment structure of the positive and the comparative degrees and the nanosyntax model of spellout (Starke 2009 et seq.).
ER -
VANDEN WYNGAERD, Guido, Michal STARKE, Karen DE CLERCQ and Pavel CAHA. How to be positive. \textit{Glossa : a journal of general linguistics}. 2020, vol.~5, No~1, p.~1-33. ISSN~2397-1835. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.1114.
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