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Theodor, all,<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">In
dialects of Malay/Indonesian, as well as closely related Minangkabau, comparative
correlatives are formed with the construction "makin X makin Y",
where "makin" means something like 'increasingly'.<span> </span>Numerous examples can be found in the Gil et
al (2015) corpus by searching for "makin"; here is one such example
from Minangkabau:<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">makin
jauah talampok nyo sesuatu, makin tinggi nilai nyo<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">increasingly
far INVOL:shut 3 one:thing increasingly high value 3<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">'The
further something is covered, the higher its value'<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">Best,<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">David<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Gil, David, Uri Tadmor, John Bowden and Bradley Taylor
(2015) <i>Data from the Jakarta Field
Station, Department of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary
Anthropology</i>, 1999-2015. [</span><span><a href="https://archive.mpi.nl/islandora/object/lat%3A1839_00_0000_0000_0021_10DE_A"><span style="color:black">https://archive.mpi.nl/islandora/object/lat%3A1839_00_0000_0000_0021_10DE_A</span></a><span style="color:black">]<span></span></span></span></p>
</div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 5:29 AM Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm via Lingtyp <<a href="mailto:lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org">lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div><font size="3">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><span style="font-size:medium">"</span><span style="font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">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">‘The worse I feel, the less inclined I am to get to work’</font></div>
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<font size="3">‘The more the sun shone, the happier people got’</font></div>
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<font size="3"><font face="Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif">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"><font face="Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif">Please send your replies to me, </font></font><font face="Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><a href="mailto:brus@ling.su.se" target="_blank">brus@ling.su.se</a> </font><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:medium">All
responses will be grossly appreciated and acknowledged.</span></div>
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<font size="3" style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">Sag, I. A. (2010). ENGLISH FILLER-GAP CONSTRUCTIONS. <i>Language</i>, <i>86</i>(3), 486–545. <a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/40961690" target="_blank">http://www.jstor.org/stable/40961690</a></font><font face="Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">”</font></div>
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<font size="3">Kind regards,</font></div>
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<font size="3">Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm</font></div>
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Prof. Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm<br>
Dept. of linguistics, Stockholm university, 106 91, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
Editor-in-chief of “Linguistic Typology”</div>
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President-Elect of Societas Linguistic Europaea<br>
<a href="http://www.ling.su.se/tamm" target="_blank">www.ling.su.se/tamm</a><br>
<a href="mailto:tamm@ling.su.se" target="_blank">tamm@ling.su.se</a><br>
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</blockquote></div><div><br clear="all"></div><br><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><pre cols="72">David Gil
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Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution
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