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sentence is correct, but I would not use it myself) combined, as in (7)
above). As the reader will see, some of the sentences also contained dou-
hle comparatives, e.g. meira sjúkari lit. “more sicker’
(8) 1 2 3 4 NA
a- Mátingarnar í dag vóru neyvari enn tær í gjár measures-the(N) today were exacter(COMP) than those(N) yesterday 76.7 13.6 4.0 1.0 3-o
8- Henda bókin er fittligari enn hin this book(N) is nicer(COMP) that that(N) 61.6 20.2 8.5 7.0 1.0
c- Mátingarnar í dag vóru meira neyvar enn tær í gjár measures-the(N) today were more exact than those(N) yesterday 55-9 18.6 12.2 10.6 1-5
Hetta barnið er meira sjúkt enn hatta this child(N) is more sick than that(N) 34-3 29.7 22.7 9-5 2.0
e- Hetta barnið er sjúkari enn hatta barnið this child(N) is sicker(COMP) than that child(N) 41.9 21.7 27.7 6.0 1.0
f Henda bókin er meira fittlig enn hin this book(N) is more nice than that(N) 25.2 25.2 29.7 17.6 0.5
§■ Mátingamar í dag vóru meira neyvari enn tær í gjár measures-the(N) today were more exact(COMP) than those(N) yesterday 7-5 13.1 26.2 50.0 1-5
F- Henda bókin er meira fittligari enn hin this book(N) is more nice(COMP) than that(N) 8.5 9-5 25.7 52.5 2.0
'• Hetta barnið er meira sjúkari enn hatta this child(N) is more sick(COMP) that that(N) 5.0 5-5 16.6 70.7 0.5
Table 12: Results ofthe grammaticality judgment test with synthetic and ana-
lytical comparatives.
^though the two most highly rated sentences contain the synthetic com-
Paratives neyvari and fittligari, the analytic ones also receive reasonably
^igh scores in several instances. Note that the analytic construction with
the derived adjective (meira fittlig in f) was actually rated lower than the
°nes with the simple and inherited adjectives (examples c and d), con-
htming in a way the results from the corpora searches presented in Table
10 above. As expected, the double comparatives (g, h and i) received the
l°West scores, indicating that the subjects were taking the task seriously
and paying attention.
Finally, the collection Bandasavnið contains the following example of
an analytic comparative. It involves an inherited adjective (birgur ‘fit’) and
’-he speaker was born in the beginning of the 20th century: