Bolinger, Dwight. <br/><br/>
Degree Words. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (324 pages) 
 - Janua Linguarum. Series Maior Series ;  v.53 .
 - Janua Linguarum. Series Maior Series .
<br/><br/>Intro -- Introduction -- 1. Intensifies with Adjectives -- 2. Some Restrictions on Intensifiers Primarily with Adjectives -- 3. The Intensification of Nouns -- 4. The Making of Intensifiers by Grammatical Shifts -- 5. Litotes and Negation -- 6. Intensifiers with the Preposition Of -- 7. Prosodic Interference and the Indefinite Article -- 8. Degree Nouns with Relatively Ungrammaticized Intensifiers -- 9. Intensifiers with Verbs -- 10. Degree Verbs and Adjectives with So and How -- 11. Much with Verbs -- 12. Degree Verbs with Other Grammaticized Intensifiers -- 13. Degree Verbs with Relatively Ungrammaticized Intensifiers -- 14. Formalized Redundancy and Semantic Analysis -- 15. Intensification by Stretching -- 16. The Intensification of Nouns that Premodify -- 17. Why Degree Nouns Behave Like Pronouns -- Appendix -- Postscript -- Main Index -- Word Index. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9783110877786 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>English language -- Comparison.<br/>English language -- Noun.<br/>English language -- Verb.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PE1199.B65 1972eb