The View from the Periphery

The English Comparative Correlative

Bibliographic Data

ID5081172
AuthorsPeter W Culicover (0009-0006-9255-7560, The Ohio State University, corresponding author), Ray Jackendoff (0000-0002-1358-9200, Brandeis University, corresponding author)
Year1999
Volume30
Issue4
Pages543-571
Publication date1999-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueLinguistic Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0024-3892 • E-ISSN: 1530-9150
PublisherMIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1162/002438999554200
OpenAlexW2162175054
LanguageEN
Citations received45
References cited16

The English comparative correlative construction (e.g., The more you eat, the fatter you get) embeds like an ordinary CP, and each of its clauses displays an ordinary long-distance dependency. However, the connection between the two clauses is not ordinary: they are connected paratactically in syntax, but the first clause is interpreted as if it were a subordinate clause. The construction's mixture of the general and the idiosyncratic at all levels of detail challenges the distinction between "core" and "periphery" in grammar and the assumption that some level of underlying syntax directly mirrors semantic structure

Core (optical fiber) · Correlative · Dependency (UML) · Dependent clause · Grammar · Linguistics · Sentence · Syntax · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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