Comparativetypolog y

Typological category of comparison
The category of comparison is a characteristic feature of adjectives and adverbs in the comparing languages. Comparisions indicate degrees of differences with adjectives and adverbs and may be equal or unequal.



Equal comparisons
An equal comparison indicates that the two entities are (or not if negative) exactly the same. In this case the sentence in the comparing languages take the following forms:

Eng.: S + V + as adj. / adv. + as + N/Pr

Uzb.: S + N+чалик + Adj./Adv. + V

E.g.: She is as clever as her mother. - У (=из) онаси каби а=лли(дир).

John is not as tall as his brother. - Жон акасичалик новча эмас(дир).

It should be kept in mind, that the subject form of the English pronoun is always used after th conjaction “as”.

E.g.: Mary is as tall as I. You look as old as she.
Examples of equal comparisons:

My car is as expensive as yours. (adj.)

Your car runs as fast as mine. (adv.)

Mary speaks Spanish as well as her sister. (adv.)

My work is as hard as yours. (adj.)

The same idea can be expressed in English in the following way:

S + V + the same + (N) + as + N/Pr.

But opposite of ‘the same’ is ‘different from’.

Cf.: My shoes are the same size as yours

My car is different from John’s.

Her mistakes are the same as Mary’s.

Their pronunciation is different from ours.