Degree Gradation of Verbs

Jens Fleischhauer-Helfer

Open Access Published by düsseldorf university press 2021

Degree Gradation of Verbs

Jens Fleischhauer-Helfer

In the series Dissertations in Language and Cognition

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110720273

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About this book

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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Jens Fleischhauer, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany.

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	i
Contents Open Access Download PDF	vii
List of Figures Open Access Download PDF	xi
List of Tables Open Access Download PDF	xiii
List of Abbreviations Open Access Download PDF	xv
1 Introduction Open Access Download PDF	1
2 Gradation and degree expressions Open Access Download PDF	11
3 Verb classification Open Access Download PDF	61
4 Syntax of verb gradation Open Access Download PDF	103
5 Gradable predicates and intensifiers Open Access Download PDF	145
6 Change of state verbs Open Access Download PDF	179
7 Verbs of emission Open Access Download PDF	227
8 Experiencer verbs Open Access Download PDF	263
9 Gradation, aspect, and telicity Open Access Download PDF	287
10 General conclusions Open Access Download PDF	315
Appendix: Language data Open Access Download PDF	325
References Open Access Download PDF	345
Index Open Access Download PDF	372

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