TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bolinger,Dwight
TI  - Degree Words
T2  - Janua Linguarum. Series Maior Series
SN  - 9783110877786
AV  - PE1199.B65 1972eb 
PY  - 1972///
CY  - Berlin/Boston
PB  - De Gruyter, Inc.
KW  - English language -- Comparison
KW  - English language -- Noun
KW  - English language -- Verb
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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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