SEMANTIC AND COMMUNICATIVE-GRAMMATICAL FEATURES OF THE LEXEME ‘QUITE’

Abstract

The article is devoted to the semantic analysis of the lexeme ‘quite’. The main meanings and lexical-grammatical features are described. It is revealed that being a degree adverb / an intensifying particle the lexeme ‘quite’ has a lowering or heightening effect on an abstractly conceived intensity scale. The lexeme ‘quite’ is synonymous with the lexemes ‘just’, ‘exactly’, ‘only’, ‘simply’, ‘really’ in their emphatic meanings

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• Published: September 12, 2014.

Keywords

• наречие степени
• интенсификатор
• модификатор прилагательных и наречий
• downtoner
• maximizer
• degree adverb
• intensifier
• adjectival and adverbial modifier

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