Student profiles
Eve Suharwardy
Email: eve.suharwardy@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
Website: https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/eve.suharwardy-postgrad
Thesis Title
Institution
Supervisors
Vera Hohaus
Andrew Koontz-Garboden
Research Summary
My project is an investigation into temporal comparison in English and Malay. We use comparison to order people or objects relative to each other, see (1). Temporal comparatives are used to order events relative to each other, see (2). We also use before/after phrases to place an ordering on events, see (3). Therefore, temporal comparatives and before/after phrases are two different expressions of temporal comparison.
(1) Leila is taller than Eve (is).
(2) Leila arrived later than Eve (arrived).
(3) Leila arrived after Eve (arrived).
(1), (2), and (3) are related, in fact (2) and (3) are synonymous. However, they have been treated independently in the literature so far. The primary goal of this project is to investigate precisely how much temporal comparatives and before/after phrases have in common compositionally in the two languages in the sample, and how and whether this composition is subject to variation.
Research Interests
Semantics (gradability, comparison, tense),
syntax-semantics interface
and field linguistics
Publications
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