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...

Table of Contents:

• References --
• Contents --
• List of Figures --
• List of Abbreviations --
• 5 Gradable predicates and intensifiers --
• 2 Gradation and degree expressions --
• 8 Experiencer verbs --
• Index
• List of Tables --
• 6 Change of state verbs --
• Appendix: Language data --
• 1 Introduction --
• 4 Syntax of verb gradation --
• 7 Verbs of emission --
• 9 Gradation, aspect, and telicity --
• Frontmatter --
• 3 Verb classification --
• 10 General conclusions --