Os indicadores 'CA' e 'COMA' na comparación en galego

Abstract

In syntax there are free and necessary relationships. The necessary ones are special. They are correspondences, which can be either correlations or representations. In the correlations ones, one of the elements of the structure possesses a relative meaning, which is only understandable through the other element which is its correlative. In the representations, the meaning of one of the elements is understandable but not from its own. It belongs to another element to which it represents pronominally.

Comparison is a correspondence which can be either correlative or representative. Each of them occurs at two levels: The Nominal and the Clausal one, depending on whether two nouns or their equivalents are compared within the same clause, or two separate clauses.

In the Galician language, comparison is characteristic. Any correlative comparisons either nominal or clausal use the particle CA as a mark for the head of second element. On the contrary, the representative one uses the particle COMA when the comparison is nominal and COMO when the comparison is clausal.