Lithuanian Phrasal Comparatives Without Covert Syntactic Structures

摘要

Phrasal comparatives can be analyzed as either involving covert structures or as being directly licensed depending on whether they exhibit clausal properties. In this paper, I show on the basis of Lithuanian phrasal comparatives that clausal-like effects can be enforced without invoking covert structures. I provide an empirically motivated analysis of Lithuanian phrasal comparatives in Hybrid Type-Logical Categorial Grammar. Under this analysis, the clausal-like properties of Lithuanian phrasal comparatives emerge as simple effects of phrasal comparative operators.