Syntax of the Comparative Clause Construction in English

By Joan Bresnan. 1973

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Neural Network Acceptability Judgments (2018, background): “g, for example *The Bill’s book with *The Bill’s book has a red cover. N % Description Adger (2003) 948 71.9 Syntax Textbook Baltin (1982) 96 66.7 Movement Baltin and Collins (2001) 880 66.7 Handbook Bresnan (1973) 259 69.1 Comparatives Carnie (2013) 870 80.3 Syntax Textbook Culicover and Jackendoff”
The grammar of standards: Judge-dependence, purpose-relativity, and comparison classes in degree constructions (2014, methodology): “Some analyses argue precisely for this view, developing a ‘radical reduction’ analysis for (35-a), while (35-b) involves ellipsis of a smaller constituent – a VP (Bresnan, 1973; Hackl, 2000; Lechner, 2001, 2004; Bhatt and Takahashi, 2008):”
The polysemy of measurement (2014, background): “It’s been proposed that QAs are overt versions of individual M-OP beginning, I believe, with Cresswell (1976) (p. 266), who says: ‘‘In fact I am going to regard the word much as a surface marker that signals the underlying degree variable (Bresnan, 1973, p. 277f).’’”
The positive morpheme in Chinese and the adjectival structure (2010, background): “[9e’ [culminates (e’) in w’ ^ e causes e’ in w’]]]] English: le.9e19e2[e = S(e1 [ e2) ^ (DO(P))(e1) ^ (BECOME(P))(e2)] c. Achievement: Skwxwu7mesh: le.”
Late Merger of Degree Clauses (2004, background): “A number of divergent analyses have been proposed regarding the position in which the degree clause merges (a representative list of the various approaches includes those in Bresnan 1973, 1975, Larson 1988, Moltmann 1992, Kennedy 1999, Lechner 1999, Heim 2000).”
Accuracy vs. Robustness in Grammar Engineering (2010, background): “…as many essays as you did poems. compares the number of essays to the number of poems, but the current ERG, lacking an analysis of comparative sub-deletion (Bresnan, 1973), only assigns the logically possible but unwanted analysis where “as you did poems” is interpreted as “while you wrote poems”.”
Degree Operators and Scope (2000, background): “See Bresnan (1973) and Sag (1976), among others.”
The Role of Dimensions in the Syntax of Noun Phrases (2006, unknown): “Bresnan (1973) labeled this latter class Q.”
A universal scale of comparison (2008, background): “I will assume that than takes a full sentential complement (see Bresnan 1973, 1975; Cresswell 1976; Kennedy 1999 among others).12 Like other analyses of comparatives, I will also assume that the than-clause contains a covert function that takes the adjective as an argument.”