Proceedings of the MIT Workshop on Comparatives 2010

Editor: Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine and Yasutada Sudo, Year:2014

Table of Contents:

Many or More: The Hindu-Urdu Degree Word 'Zyaadaa' and the Analysis of Bare Comparatives

Rajesh Bhatt . . . . . . . . . .1

Positively Uninformative

Elizabeth Bogal-Allbritten . . . . . . . . . .19

Subset Comparatives: A Psycholinguistic Investigation

Margaret Grant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

The Bare Comparative in Mandarin

Chi-Ming Louis Liu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53

Surface Syntax and Semantics: A Transparent Account of French Comparatives

Patrick Rich . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Comparative Markers and Standard Markers

Roger Schwarzschild . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87