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Record Nr.

UNISA996411333503316

Autore

Fleischhauer-Helfer Jens

Titolo

Degree Gradation of Verbs / / Jens Fleischhauer-Helfer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

De Gruyter, 2021

Düsseldorf : , : düsseldorf university press, , [2016]

©2021

ISBN

3-11-072027-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (388 p.)

Collana

Dissertations in Language and Cognition

Soggetti

LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Gradation and degree expressions -- 3 Verb classification -- 4 Syntax of verb gradation -- 5 Gradable predicates and intensifiers -- 6 Change of state verbs -- 7 Verbs of emission -- 8 Experiencer verbs -- 9 Gradation, aspect, and telicity -- 10 General conclusions -- Appendix: Language data -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Gradation is usually considered to be a property of adjectives. Examples like 'The boy loves his mother very much' and 'The boy has grown a lot' reveal that gradation is not limited to adjectives but verbs are gradable too. Verb gradation has received considerably less attention in the literature than gradation of adjectives. The aim of the current volume is to explore the notion of verb gradation in more detail. The book presents a semantic as well as a syntactic analysis of verb gradation and combines three case studies with a general perspective on the phenomenon. Issues addressed in the volume cover, among others, the notion of scalarity in the verbal domain, the interaction of verb gradation with grammatical as well as lexical aspect and verb gradation as a subcompositional phenomenon. These topics are investigated from a cross-linguistic perspective. The languages of investigation include, among others, German, Russian and French.