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How to be positive

Guido Vanden Wyngaerd
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Michal Starke
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Pavel Caha
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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
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halshs-03134866, version 1 (08-02-2021)

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Guido Vanden Wyngaerd, Michal Starke, Karen De Clercq, Pavel Caha. How to be positive. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics (2021-..), 2020, 5 (1), pp.23. ⟨10.5334/gjgl.1114⟩. ⟨halshs-03134866⟩
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