Edited by Erlewine, Michael Yoshitaka and Yasutada Sudo, 2014.
Proceedings of the MIT Workshop on Comparatives.
MIT Working Papers in Linguistics.
Recent crosslinguistic studies of comparative constructions such as Beck, Oda, and Sugisaki (2004) and Kennedy (2007) among others have not only broadened our understanding of how natural language expresses comparison, but also raised theoretical issues of how languages can differ both semantically and syntactically in what types of comparison can be expressed in what forms. The aim of this workshop is to provide an opportunity for linguists in the Cambridge area (and beyond) who are interested in this topic to share their recent findings and discuss their implications on the crosslinguistic typology of comparative constructions.