Two-place exceed comparatives in Luganda

Bochnak, M. Ryan

Two-place exceed comparatives in Luganda

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2018

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African linguistics on the prairie : Selected papers from the 45th Annual Conference on African Linguistics / Kandybowicz, Jason et al. (ed.). - Berlin : Language Science Press, 2018. - (Contemporary African Linguistics ; 3). - pp. 361-375. - ISBN 978-3-96110-037-8

Abstract

Research on comparative constructions recognizes the need for both a 3-place (“phrasal”) comparative operator, alongside a 2-place (“clausal”) operator (e.g., Heim 1985; Bhatt & Takahashi 2011). Recent cross-linguistic work on comparatives has argued that exceed comparative constructions are phrasal comparatives, making use of a 3-place operator (e.g., Beck et al. 2009; Howell 2013 for Yorùbá). While certain exceed constructions in Luganda can in- deed be analyzed in this way, I argue here for the idea that others involve a 2-place operator that compares two degrees directly. I treat nominalized adjectives as measure functions in the sense of Bartsch & Vennemann 1972 and Kennedy 1997: they map an individual to its maximal degree on a scale. This allows us to model possessed adjective nominalizations sim- ilar to Barker’s (1995) analysis of relational nouns, although whereas for Barker a possessive DP denotes a predicate of individuals, in this case the resulting DP denotes a degree.

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400 Philology, Linguistics

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45th Annual Conference on African Linguistics : ACAL 45, Apr 17, 2014 - Apr 19, 2014, Lawrence, KS

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BOCHNAK, M. Ryan, 2018. Two-place exceed comparatives in Luganda. 45th Annual Conference on African Linguistics : ACAL 45. Lawrence, KS, Apr 17, 2014 - Apr 19, 2014. In: KANDYBOWICZ, Jason, ed. and others. African linguistics on the prairie : Selected papers from the 45th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Berlin:Language Science Press, pp. 361-375. ISBN 978-3-96110-037-8. Available under: doi: 10.5281/zenodo.1251750

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@inproceedings{Bochnak2018Twopl-59419,
  year={2018},
  doi={10.5281/zenodo.1251750},
  title={Two-place exceed comparatives in Luganda},
  number={3},
  isbn={978-3-96110-037-8},
  publisher={Language Science Press},
  address={Berlin},
  series={Contemporary African Linguistics},
  booktitle={African linguistics on the prairie : Selected papers from the 45th Annual Conference on African Linguistics},
  pages={361--375},
  editor={Kandybowicz, Jason},
  author={Bochnak, M. Ryan}
}

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