The Comparative Construction and the Wh-Movement

[[abstract]]Studies of the syntax of the comparative construction generally focuses on three aspects (cf. Bresnan 1973, 1975, Chomsky 1977, Napoli 1983, Pinkham 1985, and many others): (A) the syntactic category of the comparative adjectives, (B) the syntactic role of than, which ‘links’ the main clause and the comparative clause, and (C) the operations involved in the formation of the comparative clauses. In this work I compare the English comparative construction with the Chinese one in these three aspects. Furthermore, I conclude that the comparative construction can be reduced to the Wh-movement in Chinese as well as in English.[[fileno]]204_JA07_2005_v1_p187[[department]]語言學研究