Japanese Comparative Construction @cite{stassen-1985}

Japanese uses a separative comparative construction: the standard NP is marked with the postposition yori ('from/than'), which has ablative semantics. The adjective appears in its bare (positive) form with no comparative morphology.

Example: Taroo wa Hanako yori se ga takai 'Taro TOP Hanako from height NOM tall' = 'Taro is taller than Hanako'

The marker yori is etymologically and synchronically a separative/ablative postposition, also used in spatial 'from' contexts. This exemplifies @cite{stassen-1985}'s localistic hypothesis: comparative markers are borrowed from spatial case morphology.

def Fragments.Japanese.Comparison.entry : Core.ComparativeEntry

Japanese comparative: separative (ablative) standard marker yori.

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theorem Fragments.Japanese.Comparison.standard_is_ablative : entry.standardCase = Core.Case.abl

theorem Fragments.Japanese.Comparison.case_is_fixed : entry.caseAssignment = Core.CaseAssignment.fixed

theorem Fragments.Japanese.Comparison.encoding_is_adverbial : entry.fixedEncoding = some Core.FixedCaseEncoding.adverbial

theorem Fragments.Japanese.Comparison.no_degree_morphology : entry.hasDegreeMorphology = false