Degree Constructions Questionnaire: Bulgarian, Mandarin, Guarani, Hindi, Hungarian, Japanese, Moore, Motu, Romanian, Samoan, Thai, Turkish, Yoruba
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This paper presents parallel sets of data on comparison constructions from 14 languages. On the basis of the crosslinguistic differences we observe, we propose three parameters of language variation. The first parameter concerns the question of whether or not a language's grammar has incorporated scales into the meanings of gradable predicates. The second parameter differentiates between languages that allow quantification over degrees in the syntax and those that do not. Finally, we propose a syntactic parameter that concerns options for syntactically filling the degree argument position of a gradable predicate.
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- Data paper: 10.1075/livy.9.01bec (DOI)