A Brief Analysis of the Comparison Items in Naxi Comparative Constructions
This short 2014 paper by Yang Weina and He Lijuan (Yunnan Dehong Teachers College) analyzes "comparison items" -- the comparative subject and comparative object -- in Naxi comparative sentences built with the marker ʨər31 ("than"). It first shows three syntactic patterns depending on whether both, only one, or neither comparison item surfaces overtly. It then catalogs eleven semantic role-types that a commensurable pair of comparison items can share -- agent, recipient, possessor, patient, instrument, material, manner, location, time, scope, and others -- illustrating each with a glossed Naxi example sentence and its Chinese/English translation, such as comparisons of age, price, weight, and taste. The piece is a narrow descriptive-linguistics contribution cataloguing structural possibilities rather than advancing a broader theoretical claim.
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