Detailed Information on Publication Record
2020
How to be positive
VANDEN WYNGAERD, Guido, Michal STARKE, Karen DE CLERCQ and Pavel CAHABasic information
Original name
How to be positive
Authors
VANDEN WYNGAERD, Guido (56 Belgium), Michal STARKE (756 Switzerland, belonging to the institution), Karen DE CLERCQ (56 Belgium) and Pavel CAHA (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)
Edition
Glossa : a journal of general linguistics, 2020, 2397-1835
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Článek v odborném periodiku
Field of Study
60203 Linguistics
Country of publisher
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Confidentiality degree
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
Impact factor
Impact factor: 1.170
RIV identification code
RIV/00216224:14210/20:00114071
Organization unit
Faculty of Arts
UT WoS
000518676200001
Keywords in English
adjectives; gradability; positive; comparative; containment
Tags
Tags
International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 10/8/2021 00:12, doc. Mgr. Pavel Caha, Ph.D.
Abstract
V originále
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.).
Links
| GA17-10144S, research and development project |
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| GA19-07004S, research and development project |
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