Two-Place Exceed Comparatives in Luganda
| dc.contributor.author | Bochnak, Ryan | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-03-19T14:36:06Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-03-19T14:36:06Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-05-23 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Research on comparative constructions recognizes the need for both a 3-place (“phrasal”) comparative operator, alongside a 2-place (“clausal”) operator (e.g., Heim 1985; Bhatt & Takahashi 2011). Recent cross-linguistic work on comparatives has argued that exceed comparative constructions are phrasal comparatives, making use of a 3-place operator (e.g., Beck et al. 2009; Howell 2013 for Yorùbá). While certain exceed constructions in Luganda can indeed be analyzed in this way, I argue here for the idea that others involve a 2-place operator that compares two degrees directly. I treat nominalized adjectives as measure functions in the sense of Bartsch & Vennemann 1972 and Kennedy 1997: they map an individual to its maximal degree on a scale. This allows us to model possessed adjective nominalizations similar to Barker’s (1995) analysis of relational nouns, although whereas for Barker a possessive DP denotes a predicate of individuals, in this case the resulting DP denotes a degree. | |
| dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1251750 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://africarxiv.ubuntunet.net/handle/1/1024 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.60763/africarxiv/977 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.60763/africarxiv/977 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.60763/africarxiv/977 | |
| dc.subject | Luganda | |
| dc.subject | comparatives | |
| dc.subject | Two-place | |
| dc.title | Two-Place Exceed Comparatives in Luganda |