Korean comparison #
Korean has no adjectival affix like English -er. Comparison is made with the particle -boda 'than' after the noun phrase compared with, of separative origin, and the adjective in its bare form, Yongho-ga Minca-boda keu-da 'Yongho is taller than Minca', with the adverb deo 'more' as an optional intensifier and the standard and the compared phrase free to scramble, as Sohn describes it. It is a separative comparative in Stassen's typology, and the superlative is the comparative with a universal standard. Sohn writes pota and te.
References #
The -boda comparative, whose standard takes the separative particle -boda and whose adjective has no degree marking, the adverb deo being an optional intensifier.
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The superlative is the comparative with a universal standard.