L-Parameter: Markers for Similarity (SIMIL)

From Contribution: Adverbial subordinators in European languages

'q, (just) as p': answers 'how'-questions; the character of a situation q is described by comparing it to a (typically) real past or present situation p; for dynamic situations in q closely related to Manner (e.g. It was just as I imagined; She cooks a turkey (just) as/like her mother did; [German Du fährst so gut Auto, wie ich Chinesisch spreche. 'You drive a car as well as I speak Chinese' (irony)])

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