Degree Gradation of Verbs: 2 (Dissertations in Language and Cognition, 2) - Softcover

Jens Fleischhauer-Helfer

 
9783957580252: Degree Gradation of Verbs: 2 (Dissertations in Language and Cognition, 2)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3957580250 ISBN 13: 9783957580252
Publisher: düsseldorf university press, 2016

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Jens Fleischhauer, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany.

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Publisher
düsseldorf university press
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3957580250
ISBN 13 
9783957580252
Binding
Perfect Paperback
Number of pages
388