[Lingtyp] A query on comparative correlative clauses

[Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm]

Dear all,

I am posting a query from our student Theodor Brus, who is looking for data and information on comparative correlative clauses across languages.

"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.

‘The worse I feel, the less inclined I am to get to work’

‘The more the sun shone, the happier people got’

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.

Please send your replies to me, brus at ling.su.se<mailto:brus at ling.su.se> All responses will be grossly appreciated and acknowledged.

Sag, I. A. (2010). ENGLISH FILLER-GAP CONSTRUCTIONS. Language, 86(3), 486–545. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40961690”

Kind regards,
Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm


Prof. Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm
Dept. of linguistics, Stockholm university, 106 91, Stockholm, Sweden
Editor-in-chief of “Linguistic Typology”
President-Elect of Societas Linguistic Europaea
www.ling.su.se/tamm<http://www.ling.su.se/tamm>
tamm at ling.su.se


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