Comparison and universal grammar

Title Page......Page 2
Contents......Page 4
Acknowledgements......Page 7
Abbreviations......Page 8
Part One A Cross-linguistic Typology of Comparatives......Page 10
1 Introduction......Page 11
2 The Typology of Comparative Constructions......Page 33
3 In Search of a Determinant Factor......Page 62
4 Types of Syntactic Chaining......Page 75
5 Comparative Type and Chaining Type......Page 113
Part Two Testing the Set of Chaining-based Universals......Page 122
6 The Separative Comparative......Page 123
7 The Allative and the Locative Comparative......Page 145
8 The Exceed Comparative......Page 168
9 Derived-case Comparatives......Page 192
10 An Examination of Secondary Choices......Page 232
Part Three Towards an Explanation of Comparative-type Choice......Page 262
11 Theoretical Background Assumptions......Page 263
12 Cognitive Strategies in Comparative Formation......Page 276
13 Grammatical Procedures in Comparative Formation......Page 286
14 Optimal and Non-optimal Language Types......Page 299
15 An Explanatory Model of Comparative-type Choice......Page 313
Notes......Page 345
Appendix A......Page 356
Appendix B......Page 361
Bibliography......Page 365
Index of Languages......Page 380