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The comparative cycle in crosslinguistic perspective ...
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Jäger, Agnes. - : Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads, 2021
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This paper traces the diachronic development of comparison constructions crosslinguistically, highlighting a recurrent pattern of change with respect to standard markers: the comparative cycle. Using diachronic corpus data as well as data from descriptive grammars and handbooks, it is demonstrated that comparison particles and other standard markers in many languages undergo a syntactic-semantic distributional shift from marking equality to marking inequality. More specifically, we witness a stepwise and recurrent – i.e. cyclical – shift of standard markers from similatives to equatives and to comparatives. The comparative cycle is compared to other instances of cyclical change and linked to linguistic economy and the markedness hierarchy of comparison constructions. ... : Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads, Vol. 1 No. 1 (2021): Comparative Constructions across languages ...
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URL: https://typologyatcrossroads.unibo.it/article/view/13430
https://dx.doi.org/10.6092/issn.2785-0943/13430
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In: Comparison and Gradation in Indo-European / Keydana, Götz; Hock, Wolfgang; Widmer, Paul (Hrsg.). - Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, 2021. - (The Mouton Handbooks of Indo-European Typology ; 1). - S. 281-348. - ISBN 978-3-11-053766-6 (2021)
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