Adjectives and boundedness

Paradis, Carita

doi:10.1515/cogl.12.1.47

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“…From commenting on the match between the referent and the head noun, it acquired the ability to designate itself a quality of the referent. That is, it came to function as a descriptive modifier which ascribes properties to the nominal referent such as truthfulness (5) Most of the descriptive modifier meanings of very tend to be bounded, that is, they describe properties that either do or do not apply, such as 'true', 'legally valid' and 'genuine' (Bolinger 1967;Paradis 2000Paradis , 2001. However, we also find examples which impose a marked unbounded construal on a sense such as 'genuine', as in (10).…”

Section: Very As Descriptive Modifiermentioning

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The history ofvery: the directionality of functional shift and (inter)subjectification

Breban¹,

Davidse²

2016

English Language and Linguistics

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On the basis of extensive corpus analysis, we reconstruct the history of very and the paths of change along which it acquired new meanings. We propose an analytical model that, firstly, assigns general semantic functions to the (sub)modifier relations in the English noun phrase and, secondly, identifies subsenses of these functions on the basis of collocational, semantic and pragmatic distinctions observed in different contexts.

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Section: Very As Descriptive Modifiermentioning

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The history ofvery: the directionality of functional shift and (inter)subjectification

Breban¹,

Davidse²

2016

English Language and Linguistics

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“…Speakers' understanding of thick is profiled against the contentful dimension of thickness and the configuration of scale. It evokes a meaning within the 'having-more-than-average-of' range along the unbounded scale of thickness (Paradis 2001). It only obtains its discursive reading when it is used in human communication as a modifier of nominal meanings.…”

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“…First, the adjectives were categorized with respect to gradability, i.e., as nongradable, scalar, or non-scalar (Paradis 2001(Paradis , 2008. Scalar adjectival formmeaning pairings are fully gradable and combine felicitously with such degree modifiers as very and fairly.…”

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Semantic profiles of antonymic adjectives in discourse

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This study has two goals: First, to give an account of the semantic organization of individually used antonymic adjectives in discourse and second, based on those findings and previous work on antonymic meanings, to contribute to a comprehensive theoretical account of their representation within the framework of Cognitive Linguistics. The hypothesis is that the members of the pairs are used in the same contexts and in the same type of constructions, not only when they co-occur and are used to express binary opposition as shown in previous studies, but also when they do not. The manually coded corpus data from the BNC are analyzed along four semantic parameters: (i) the configuration of the adjectives in terms of gradability, (ii) the way they modify the nominal meanings, i.e., attributively or predicatively (iii) the meaning type of the modified nouns, and (iv) the status of the constructions with respect to whether their meanings are what we refer to as "basic", metaphorical or metonymical. Correspondence analysis technique is used to identify similarities and differences on the basis of the totality of the data. As predicted, our findings confirm a high degree of pairwise similarity -but also some differences. On the basis of these results, it can be argued that the long-standing controversy within Structuralism between proponents of the co-occurrence hypothesis and the substitutability hypothesis in antonym research is a non-issue.Keywords: opposition, gradability, nominal meaning, metaphor, metonymy, literal, scalar, corpus, adjectives, English, semantics, noun, attributive, figurative, syntagmatic, paradigmatic, substitution hypothesis, co-occurrence hypothesis

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“…En este caso, los estados resultantes a los que dan lugar la base y el derivado mantienen una relación de oposición complementaria (Lyons 1977;Cruse 1986;Grossmann 1994;Paradis 2001;Kennedy y McNally 2005). En concreto, ambos estados dividen de manera exhaustiva un parámetro semántico, por lo que (18) es una contradicción, y (19) es una tautología.…”

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El valor aspectual de los verbos reversativos: Claves para un proceso de verbalización

Rosique

2013

Círculo De Lingüística Aplicada a La Comunicación

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Tradicionalmente se ha asumido que este valor se desencadena cuando el prefijo se une a bases télicas, por lo que, en consecuencia, se deduce que el derivado es también télico. El propósito de este artículo es explicar el comportamiento de los verbos reversativos debido a su carácter marcado, en el sentido de que aluden a un estado anterior. El tipo de oposición entre el estado resultante de la base y el estado resultante del derivado se refleja en la imagen verbal del derivado. Asimismo, se mostrará cómo, en muchas ocasiones, un principio de refuerzo pragmático contribuye a la telicidad y ayuda a perfilar la imagen aspectual del verbo reversativo. Desde una perspectiva más general, este trabajo plantea la importancia de tener en cuenta los principios pragmáticos en el análisis de las categorías gramaticales.Palabras clave: oposición, verbos reversativos, aspecto, telicidad, refuerzo pragmático. rodríguez rosique: valor aspectual 100 AbstractThe reversative value is a kind of opposition between verbs which may manifest lexical or morphologically. In the case of Spanish, the reversative is one of the most productive values of the prefix des-when it joins to verbal bases in order to create new verbs. Traditionally it has been assumed that this value is triggered when the prefix is adhered to telic bases, and as consequence the reversative is also conceived as telic. The aim of this paper is to explain the behavior of reversative verbs in terms of their "marked" nature, in the sense that they allude to a previous state. The kind of opposition between the base verb and the derived verb is in a way reflected in the verbal image of the reversative. More generally, this paper highlights the importance of pragmatic principles in the analysis of grammatical categories.

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Adjectives and boundedness

Cited by 218 publications

References 9 publications

The history ofvery: the directionality of functional shift and (inter)subjectification

The history ofvery: the directionality of functional shift and (inter)subjectification

Semantic profiles of antonymic adjectives in discourse

El valor aspectual de los verbos reversativos: Claves para un proceso de verbalización

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