This paper appears in Linguistische Berichte, 21. It is a short version of an article, "Relative Adjectives and Comparison", UCLA Papers in Syntax, 2, edited by Paul Schachter and George Bedell. The theory of grammar on which this article is based, as well as applications of this theory to other problems of grammatical analysis, is presented in our book, Semantic Structures: A Study in the Relation Between Semantics and Syntax, Frankfurt: Athenaum-Verlag 1972.
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Bartsch, R. (1975). The grammar of relative adjectives and comparison. In: Storer, T., Winter, D. (eds) Formal Aspects of Cognitive Processes. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 22. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-07016-8_11
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