La gradabilité nominale en anglais et en français
The aim of this paper is to describe the gradability of nouns in French and in English. After a description of different conceptions of nominal gradability in the literature, we provide our definition of lexical gradability. Three classes of nouns can be gradable : stative intensive nouns (clevernes...
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| description | The aim of this paper is to describe the gradability of nouns in French and in English. After a description of different conceptions of nominal gradability in the literature, we provide our definition of lexical gradability. Three classes of nouns can be gradable : stative intensive nouns (cleverness / intelligence), evaluative nouns (idiot / idiot), and dynamic intensive nouns (modernization / modernisation). The comparison between French and English shows that, even though a few discrepancies can be highlighted, nominal gradability is mostly similar in both languages. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-12d91f3bc2174773ad5c7f18934c64402025-01-30T12:32:45ZengPresses Universitaires du MidiAnglophonia1278-33312427-04662018-11-012610.4000/anglophonia.1681La gradabilité nominale en anglais et en françaisPauline HaasAnne JugnetThe aim of this paper is to describe the gradability of nouns in French and in English. After a description of different conceptions of nominal gradability in the literature, we provide our definition of lexical gradability. Three classes of nouns can be gradable : stative intensive nouns (cleverness / intelligence), evaluative nouns (idiot / idiot), and dynamic intensive nouns (modernization / modernisation). The comparison between French and English shows that, even though a few discrepancies can be highlighted, nominal gradability is mostly similar in both languages.https://journals.openedition.org/anglophonia/1681semantics of nounslexical gradabilitystative and dynamic intensive nounsevaluative nouns |
| spellingShingle | Pauline Haas Anne Jugnet La gradabilité nominale en anglais et en français Anglophonia semantics of nouns lexical gradability stative and dynamic intensive nouns evaluative nouns |
| title | La gradabilité nominale en anglais et en français |
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| title_short | La gradabilité nominale en anglais et en français |
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| topic | semantics of nouns lexical gradability stative and dynamic intensive nouns evaluative nouns |
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