Boring as hell: a corpus study of intensifying post-modification of predicative adjectives in the ‘ADJ as NOUN’ frame
This paper presents a phenomenon that has attracted little attention despite being relatively frequent and very productive in spoken language. The aim of this study is to prove that the ‘ADJ as NOUN’ frame, which is commonly used to form comparative phrases and similes, is also employed to intensify...
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Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta
2020-11-01
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| Series: | Linguistica Pragensia |
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| Online Access: | https://linguisticapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2020/11/Jaroslav_Emmer_127-137.pdf |