[Lingtyp] A query on comparative correlative clauses

[Muhammad Zakaria]

Dear Theodor and all,

You will find some examples of comparative correlative in Hyow, a South
Central Tibeto-Burman language, from page 741-745 of my PhD dissertation
downloadable from https://dr.ntu.edu.sg/handle/10356/73237

Best wishes,
Zakaria


On Fri, 6 Dec 2024 at 08:28, 양재영 via Lingtyp <
lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org> wrote:

> Dear Theodor Brus,
>
> Korean comparative correlative clauses are constructed with a dedicated
> verbal ending, -lswulok(-ㄹ수록). Below are (rough) equivalents to your
> example sentences:
>
> 몸이 안 좋을수록 출근하기가 (더) 싫다
> mom-i an coh-ulswulok chulkunha-ki-ka (te) silh-ta
> body-NOM NEG good-CC go_to_work-NMLZ-NOM (more) be_dislikeable-DECL
>
> 햇빛이 (더) 비칠수록 사람들은 (더) 행복하다
> hayspich-i (te) pichi-lswulok salam-tul-un (te) hayngpokha-ta
> sunshine-NOM (more) shine-CC person-PL-TOP (more) be_happy-DECL
>
> (Note also the optionality of te ‘more’ for comparative constructions in
> general.)
>
> Constructions with -swulok indeed often conveys a unidirectional causative
> relationship, so that it can be used for imperatives as well.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Best,
> Jaeyeong Yang
> Seoul National University
>
> 2024년 12월 6일 (금) 오전 5:29, Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm via Lingtyp <
> lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org>님이 작성:
>
>> 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 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
>> tamm at ling.su.se
>>
>>
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