Deletion phenomena in comparative constructions: English comparatives in a cross-linguistic perspective - Bacskai-Atkari, Julia
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This book provides a new analysis for the syntax of comparatives, focusing on various deletion phenomena affecting the subclause. In particular, the proposed account shows that Comparative Deletion is merely a surface phenomenon that can be drawn back to the overtness of the comparative operator and the availability of lower copies of a movement chain, and it is thus subject to both language-internal and cross-linguistic variation. The main focus of the book is on English, yet other languages are also discussed for comparative purposes, with the aim of showing what the idiosyncratic properties of English comparatives are.…mehr

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This book provides a new analysis for the syntax of comparatives, focusing on various deletion phenomena affecting the subclause. In particular, the proposed account shows that Comparative Deletion is merely a surface phenomenon that can be drawn back to the overtness of the comparative operator and the availability of lower copies of a movement chain, and it is thus subject to both language-internal and cross-linguistic variation. The main focus of the book is on English, yet other languages are also discussed for comparative purposes, with the aim of showing what the idiosyncratic properties of English comparatives are.
Autorenporträt
Julia Bacskai-Atkari received her doctoral degree in general linguistics in 2014 at the University of Potsdam, where she also completed her habilitation in 2021. After various appointments in Potsdam and in Konstanz, she is currently an assistant professor for Language Contact: (English) Linguistics at the University of Amsterdam and a Privatdozentin at the University of Potsdam. She has carried out two research projects on the syntax of functional left peripheries and on asymmetries in relative clauses as principal investigator. Her research focuses on clause typing and the syntactic properties of the CP-domain in various finite subordinate clauses, including comparative constructions and relative clauses. Her work is dedicated to the study of West Germanic languages, especially to English and German, but her cross-linguistic investigations include many other languages.