“It’s way too intriguing!” The fuzzy status of emergent intensifiers: A Functional Discourse Grammar account

This article seeks to explore the function and linguistic status of non-central members of the class of “degree words,” focusing on specific cases in English and Spanish, namely, the English adverbs way and proper, the Spanish trendy phrase “Adj no, lo siguiente” and the adverb muy. These intensifi...

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Published in:	Open Linguistics
Main Author:	Portero-Muñoz Carmen
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	De Gruyter 2022-12-01
Subjects:	intensification emphasis quantity degree words modifier operator grammaticalization fdg
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2022-0210