A Study of Temporal Comparison in English and Malay

该项目位于形式语言学领域，更具体地说，在其形式语义学的子领域。本研究旨在探讨英语和马来语中的时间比较现象，从而对这两种语言的时间比较进行对比研究。语义研究的更广泛的目标，因此这个项目，是调查是否有任何意义的元素是真正普遍的，并严格审查和验证的变化，我们发现。有三个主要的研究问题，这个项目：Q1时间比较是如何在马来语表达？问题2：时间比较的基础语法是什么？它在多大程度上模仿了程度语法？Q3这个经验和理论的图景与英语相比如何？

This project is situated within the field of formal linguistics, more specifically within its subfield of formal semantics. The aim of this research is to explore the phenomenon of temporal comparison in English and Malay, thus contributing a contrastive study of this topic in these two languages. The wider goal of semantic research, and consequently this project, is to investigate whether any elements of meaning are truly universal and to critically examine and characterise the variation that we find.There are three principal research questions for this project: Q1 How is temporal comparison expressed in Malay? Q2 What is the underlying grammar of temporal comparison and to what extent is it modelled on the grammar of degree? Q3 How does this empirical and theoretical picture compare to English?