Degree Gradation of Verbs
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Beschreibung
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.
Autor*in
Jens Fleischhauer-Helfer
Themen in »Degree Gradation of Verbs«
semantic analysis verb gradation Gradation Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf The structure of representations in language cognition and science SFB 991 Sonderforschungsbereich 991 DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Hana Filip Peter Indefrey Laura Kallmeyer Sebastian Löbner Gerhard Schurz