35.2659, Qs: Comparative correlatives

[The LINGUIST List]

LINGUIST List: Vol-35-2659. Tue Oct 01 2024. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 35.2659, Qs: Comparative correlatives

Moderator: Steven Moran (linguist at linguistlist.org)
Managing Editor: Justin Fuller
Team: Helen Aristar-Dry, Steven Franks, Joel Jenkins, Daniel Swanson, Erin Steitz
Jobs: jobs at linguistlist.org | Conferences: callconf at linguistlist.org | Pubs: pubs at linguistlist.org

Homepage: http://linguistlist.org

Editor for this issue: Joel Jenkins <joel at linguistlist.org>

================================================================


Date: 27-Sep-2024
From: Theodor Brus [brus at ling.su.se]
Subject: Comparative correlatives


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.
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’

If you are a speaker of any language, other than English, I would be
very grateful if you could translate the examples I have shown. I
appreciate all responses. If you are interested I would love to have
zoom call to discuss the syntax and semantics of the comparative
correlative clauses in your language.

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

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Semantics
                     Syntax
                     Typology




------------------------------------------------------------------------------

********************** LINGUIST List Support ***********************
Please consider donating to the Linguist List to support the student editors:

https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=87C2AXTVC4PP8

LINGUIST List is supported by the following publishers:

Bloomsbury Publishing http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/

Brill http://www.brill.com

Cambridge University Press http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics

De Gruyter Mouton https://cloud.newsletter.degruyter.com/mouton

Equinox Publishing Ltd http://www.equinoxpub.com/

European Language Resources Association (ELRA) http://www.elra.info

John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/

Language Science Press http://langsci-press.org

Lincom GmbH https://lincom-shop.eu/

Multilingual Matters http://www.multilingual-matters.com/

Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH + Co. KG http://www.narr.de/

Oxford University Press http://www.oup.com/us

Wiley http://www.wiley.com


----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-35-2659
----------------------------------------------------------