Download or read book Cross-linguistic Variation in the Semantics of Comparatives written by Michael Ryan Bochnak and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research on understudied languages and cross-linguistic variation from a formal semantic perspective is in its relative youth, but has been attracting the attention of more and more linguists over the past 15 years or so. This dissertation contributes to this line of work by investigating comparative constructions in Luganda and Washo. These languages make use of comparative constructions that are typologically common (Stassen 1985) but which have received little attention in formal linguistics. I provide a formal semantic analysis of these constructions, and situate the results within a broader picture of the nature of cross-linguistic variation in the meaning component of grammar.