TY - JOUR AU - Giannakidou, Anastasia AU - Yoon, Suwon PY - 2019/07/23 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Metalinguistic Comparatives in Greek and Korean: Attitude Semantics and Expressive Content JF - Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung JA - SuB VL - 13 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.18148/sub/2009.v13i1.521 UR - https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/article/view/521 SP - 141-156 AB - <p>In this paper, we present a parallel between Greek and Korean in metalinguistic comparatives (MCs), and propose an analysis for both languages that combines an <em>attitudinal</em> semantics (building on Giannakidou and Stavrou 2008) with <em>expressive</em> meaning. The comparative morpheme supplies the former, and the <em>than</em>-particle supplies the latter. We discuss also data from Korean showing a two way distinction between “regular” MCs, and <em>antiveridical</em> MCs.We argue that the use of MC<em> than</em> particles, in all variants, brings about an individual’s emotive state, and propose that the morphemes contain expressive indices in the sense of Potts 2007. Our analysis has two implications: first, it allows the hypothesis that <em>all</em> metalinguistic functions in language are indeed part of the grammar in the particular way formulated here; second, our use of expressive indices supports Potts’s view of the expressive component as separate, but interacting, with the descriptive content: the <em>than</em> particle is not vacuous, but the place where descriptive and expressive meaning interact.</p> ER -