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<div class=""><font size="3" class="">I am posting a query from our student Theodor Brus, who is looking for data and information on comparative correlative clauses across languages. </font></div>
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<div class=""><span style="font-size: medium;" class="">"</span><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Hello! My name is Theodor Brus and i am writing my bachelor thesis this spring at the Department of linguistics
at Stockholm University. I want to do a typological study of comparative correlative clauses (CCs). Sag (2010, p. 526) defines comparative correlative clauses as ‘monotonic relations between two differentials’. However, there is often a causative function
in one direction, the first element is the reason for the state of the second element. The following examples illustrate this point.</span></div>
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<font size="3" class=""><font face="Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif" class="">What I am looking for are glossed sentences from any language that have a free translation which corresponds to an English CC. I would also be grateful for pointers to descriptions
and discussion of these phenomena in various languages. </font></font></div>
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<font size="3" class=""><font face="Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif" class="">Please send your replies to me, </font></font><font face="Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3" class=""><a href="mailto:brus@ling.su.se" class="">brus@ling.su.se</a> </font><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;" class="">All
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<font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Sag, I. A. (2010). ENGLISH FILLER-GAP CONSTRUCTIONS. <i class="">Language</i>, <i class="">86</i>(3), 486–545. <a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/40961690" class="">http://www.jstor.org/stable/40961690</a></font><font face="Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3" class="">”</font></div>
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<font size="3" class="">Kind regards,</font></div>
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<font size="3" class="">Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm</font></div>
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Prof. Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm<br class="">
Dept. of linguistics, Stockholm university, 106 91, Stockholm, Sweden<br class="">
Editor-in-chief of “Linguistic Typology”</div>
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