Re-conceptualizing scale boundaries: The case of Dutch helemaal
Maximizers – adverbs denoting a maximum degree of a property (e.g. completely) – are often re-conceptualized as boosters denoting a high degree (cf. very). As a result, these degree adverbs come to modify unbounded adjectives which are not compatible with the idea of a maximum value. Although this kind of meaning change proved cross-linguistically robust, the exact mechanisms of this process have never been investigated. The present paper aims to shed more light onto semantic and contextual factors facilitat-ing combinations of open-scale (unbounded) adjectives with closed-scale (bounded) adve... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2011 |
Schlagwörter: | International (English) |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27066738 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/204074 |