Degree Gradation of Verbs

• Main Author: Fleischhauer-Helfer, Jens
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Germany Düsseldorf University Press 2016; De Gruyter; düsseldorf university press; Dusseldorf University Press
• Series: Dissertations in Language and Cognition
• Subjects: adjective gradation; adnominal degree expression; adverbial beaucoup; Aktionsart; case study; Change of state verbs; classification; cognitive concepts; Collaborative Research Center; Compositional patterns; Cross-categorical distribution; Cross-linguistic distribution; cross-linguistic perspective; degree expression; degree expression continuum; degree gradation; degree verb; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft; DFG; Dissertations in Language and Cognition; Doetjes; Emission verbs; Erratic verbs; event structure; Event-dependent degree gradation; Experiencer verbs; French; Gerhard Schurz; German; Gradation; gradation of adjectives; gradation of verbs; Grammatical aspect; Hana Filip; Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf; Japanese degree verb; Kennedy; Language; Language and Linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General; Laura Kallmeyer; lexical aspect; lexicalization of scales; light emission; linguistic representation; linguistic structure; Linguistics; Manner/result complementarity; McNally; mental representation; Object-experiencer verbs; Peter Indefrey; Predicate decomposition; Reference Grammar; Robert D. Van Valin, Jr; Role Grammar; Russian; Scalar changes; scalarity; Scope relationships; Sebastian Löbner; Semantic analysis; semantic analysis of verb gradation; Semantic type; Semantic verb classes; Semantics of intensifiers; SFB 991; smell emission; Sonderforschungsbereich 991; sound emission; subcompositional phenomenon; Subcompositionality of verbal degree gradation; Subject-experiencer verbs; substance emission; syntactic ambiguity of beaucoup; syntactic analysis; syntactic analysis of verb gradation; telicity; Tenny; The structure of representations in language, cognition and science; Tsujimura; Vecchiato; verb gradation; verbal domain; syntactic analysis of verb gradation; cross-linguistic perspective; verbal domain; Russian; DFG; Robert D. Van Valin, Jr; Hana Filip; subcompositional phenomenon; telicity; SFB 991; semantic analysis of verb gradation; Aktionsart; gradation of adjectives; adnominal degree expression; Semantic verb classes; Sonderforschungsbereich 991; linguistic representation; Laura Kallmeyer; Reference Grammar; degree expression; Event-dependent degree gradation; scalarity; Sebastian Löbner; linguistic structure; classification; Predicate decomposition; substance emission; Erratic verbs; case study; Gerhard Schurz; Cross-linguistic distribution; Japanese degree verb; degree verb; syntactic ambiguity of beaucoup; Semantic type; Peter Indefrey; Collaborative Research Center; Grammatical aspect; Cross-categorical distribution; gradation of verbs; Semantics of intensifiers; The structure of representations in language, cognition and science; sound emission; Manner/result complementarity; Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf; Tenny; Compositional patterns; German; light emission; Kennedy; degree gradation; French; event structure; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft; Subject-experiencer verbs; verb gradation; mental representation; Scope relationships; Vecchiato; adverbial beaucoup; gradation; lexicalization of scales; Dissertations in Language and Cognition; Subcompositionality of verbal degree gradation; Role Grammar; smell emission; Change of state verbs; Emission verbs; Doetjes; lexical aspect; Object-experiencer verbs; Scalar changes; degree expression continuum; Experiencer verbs; McNally; adjective gradation; Tsujimura; cognitive concepts
• ISBN: 3110720272; 9783110720273; 9783957580252; 3957580250
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110720273

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.