The ability to compare is fundamental to human cognition.
Expressing various types of comparison is thus essential to any
language. The present volume presents detailed grammatical
descriptions of how comparison and gradation are expressed in
ancient Indo-European languages. The detailed chapters devoted to
the individual languages go far beyond standard handbook knowledge.
Each chapter is structured the same way to facilitate
cross-reference and (typological) comparison. The data are
presented in a top-down fashion and in a format easily accessible
to the linguistic community. The topics covered are similatives,
equatives, comparatives, superlatives, elatives, and excessives.
Each type of comparison is illustrated with glossed examples of all
its attested grammatical realizations. The book is an indispensable
tool for typologists, historical linguists, and students of the
syntax and morphosyntax of comparison.
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