{"title":"There is only one más: Spanish que/de comparative alternation","authors":"Luis Miguel Toquero-Pérez","doi":"10.1007/s11049-023-09590-5","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>Spanish has two forms to introduce comparative standards: <i>que</i> ‘that’ and <i>de</i> ‘of.’ The comparative morpheme is always the same <i>más</i> ‘-er/more.’ While <i>que</i>-comparatives show no variation in their syntactic properties, there is significant variation within <i>de-</i>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 <i>más</i> 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 <i>más</i> and the standard form a constituent, (ii) allows for inverse scope, ACD resolution inside the standard of comparison and extraposition.</p>","PeriodicalId":18975,"journal":{"name":"Natural Language & Linguistic Theory","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8000,"publicationDate":"2023-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Natural Language & Linguistic Theory","FirstCategoryId":"98","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-023-09590-5","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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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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