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How to be positive

Guido Vanden Wyngaerd, Michal Starke, Karen De Clercq (UGent) and Pavel Caha
(2020) GLOSSA-A JOURNAL OF GENERAL LINGUISTICS. 5(1).
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In this paper, we discuss a cross-linguistically rare pattern of comparative formation found in Slovak. This pattern is theoretically interesting, because it violates a candidate universal on the relationship between the positive and the comparative degree. The universal, discussed in Grano & Davis (2018), says that the comparative is always either identical to, or derived from, the positive degree. This universal is violated by a number of adjectives in Slovak. These adjectives have a suffix -k in the positive degree, which is absent in the comparative. We capture this pattern in terms of a non-containment structure of the positive and the comparative degrees and the nanosyntax model of spellout (Starke 2009 et seq.).
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adjectives, gradability, positive, comparative, containment, SEMANTICS, ADJECTIVES

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Vanden Wyngaerd, Guido, et al. “How to Be Positive.” GLOSSA-A JOURNAL OF GENERAL LINGUISTICS, vol. 5, no. 1, 2020, doi:10.5334/gjgl.1114.
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Vanden Wyngaerd, G., Starke, M., De Clercq, K., & Caha, P. (2020). How to be positive. GLOSSA-A JOURNAL OF GENERAL LINGUISTICS, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.1114
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Vanden Wyngaerd, Guido, Michal Starke, Karen De Clercq, and Pavel Caha. 2020. “How to Be Positive.” GLOSSA-A JOURNAL OF GENERAL LINGUISTICS 5 (1). https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.1114.
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Vanden Wyngaerd, Guido, Michal Starke, Karen De Clercq, and Pavel Caha. 2020. “How to Be Positive.” GLOSSA-A JOURNAL OF GENERAL LINGUISTICS 5 (1). doi:10.5334/gjgl.1114.
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Vanden Wyngaerd G, Starke M, De Clercq K, Caha P. How to be positive. GLOSSA-A JOURNAL OF GENERAL LINGUISTICS. 2020;5(1).
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G. Vanden Wyngaerd, M. Starke, K. De Clercq, and P. Caha, “How to be positive,” GLOSSA-A JOURNAL OF GENERAL LINGUISTICS, vol. 5, no. 1, 2020.
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  language     = {{eng}},
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