11.1999, Sum: The Syntax of Comparative Constructions

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Date:  Wed, 20 Sep 2000 17:13:03 +0100
From:  "Lucia Grimaldi" <grimaldi at lingrom.fu-berlin.de>
Subject:  The Syntax of Comparative Constructions

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Date:  Wed, 20 Sep 2000 17:13:03 +0100
From:  "Lucia Grimaldi" <grimaldi at lingrom.fu-berlin.de>
Subject:  The Syntax of Comparative Constructions


For Query: Linguist 11.1682

Dear Linguists,

Some weeks ago I sent out a query regarding the syntax of comparative
constructions. I would like to thank the following for their kind suggestions:

Bruce Despain [DespainBD at ldschurch.org]
Thomas Kotschi [kotschi at zedat.fu-berlin.de]
Andre Meinunger [andre at zas.gwz-berlin.de]

Below follows a list of books and articles that they referred to:

Donati, Caterina: "Comparative Clauses as Free Relatives: A Raising
Analysis", in: Probus 9:2, 1997, 145-166.
Despain, Bruce: A Paraphrastic Grammar of English: a Scientific and Logical
Approach to the Study of Syntax.
                www.burgoyne.com/pages/bdespain/grammar/gramtoc.htm
(particularly §15-3 ¶ 3,4; Chapter 17; §18-2 ¶1).
Price, Susan: Comparative Constructions in Spanish and French Syntax,
London: Routledge 1990
Rivara, R.: Le système de la comparaison. Sur la construction du sens dans
les langues naturelles, Paris: Minuit 1990.

I'm still looking for recent literature on comparative constructions (esp.
syntax of comparative constructions in Romance Languages). If you have some
idea, please write to me; I will post another summary to the list.

Best regards

Lucia Grimaldi

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