Comparative constructions in the Vepsian language
Ivanova Galina P.,
Candidate Sc. {Philology}, Associate Professor, Department of Russian Language, Novosibirsk State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering (Novosibirsk, Russia), tervhen66@mail.ru
The article considers different types of comparative constructions in the Vepsian language, namely monopredicative (comparative phrases, sentences with comparative predicates and other members of the sentence, which express comparison) and polypredicative (complex sentences with subordinate comparative clauses).
Keywords: comparison; comparative construction; Vepsian language.
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