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- Title
Graduierung nicht skalarer Verben.
- Authors
Fleischhauer, Jens
- Abstract
The paper deals with degree gradation of verbs in German. Gradation is a process of comparing degrees on a scale but not all gradable verbs lexicalize a suitable gradation scale. In the paper, a definition of ‘lexically scalar predicate’ is proposed and based on that definition, it is argued that some gradable verbs are not lexically scalar. I argue essentially that such verbs require the activation of a gradation scale. The scale is licensed by the lexical semantics of the gradable verb but retrieved from the conceptual knowledge associated with the verb.
- Publication
Zeitschrift für Germanistische Linguistik, 2018, Vol 46, Issue 2, p221
- ISSN
0301-3294
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/zgl-2018-0014