There is only one más: Spanish que/de comparative alternation

IF 0.8 1区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Natural Language & Linguistic Theory Pub Date : 2023-12-04 DOI:10.1007/s11049-023-09590-5

Luis Miguel Toquero-Pérez

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Abstract

Spanish has two forms to introduce comparative standards: que ‘that’ and de ‘of.’ The comparative morpheme is always the same más ‘-er/more.’ While que-comparatives show no variation in their syntactic properties, there is significant variation within de-comparatives regarding extraposition, scope, ACD resolution and the syntax of comparative numerals. Despite this variation, I argue that a uniform account is possible. I propose that más has the same syntax across the board (i.e. it takes the late-merged standard as complement, Bhatt and Pancheva 2004) and semantically it is a generalized quantifier over degrees (Heim 2001). The analysis (i) ensures that más and the standard form a constituent, (ii) allows for inverse scope, ACD resolution inside the standard of comparison and extraposition.

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只有一个más:西班牙语que/de比较交替

西班牙语有两种形式来引入比较标准:que ' that '和de ' of。比较级语素总是一样的más -er/more。“虽然队列比较级在句法属性上没有变化，但在非比较级中，在外接词、范围、ACD分辨率和比较数词的语法方面存在显著变化。”尽管存在这种差异，但我认为统一的解释是可能的。我建议más具有相同的语法(即，它将后期合并的标准作为补语，Bhatt和Pancheva 2004)，并且在语义上它是度上的广义量词(Heim 2001)。分析(i)确保más和标准形成一个组成部分，(ii)允许反向范围，ACD分辨率在标准内的比较和外置。

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