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Abstract

In the Slavic languages, the title of this paper cannot be rendered with a phrasal comparative; a clausal comparative must be used instead. I evaluate three types of theories of phrasal comparatives and conclude that only one – the small clause analysis – can accommodate the new observation. I then offer an explanation of the observation in terms of a universal and inviolable anti-locality constraint on movement, in conjunction with a variable and violable constraint on extraction out of subjects. The proposal provides support for the existence of non-overt syntactic structure in phrasal comparatives and for the use of the same comparative quantifier in both phrasal and clausal comparatives; it also further illuminates the role of locality and islands in movement. 2. The Empirical Observation The empirical contribution of this paper is the observation that phrasal comparatives in Slavic are syntactically restricted, as described in (1). (1) In the Slavic languages, a more-NP cannot be an underlying subject (an external argument) in phrasal comparatives. Greek, Hungarian and English are like the Slavic languages, while

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