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Fairly Pretty or Pretty Fair? On the Development and Grammaticalization of English Downtowners.
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Nevalainen, Terttu; Rissanen, Matti – Language Sciences, 2002
Discuses the adverbialization of two roughly synonymous present-day English intensifiers, "pretty" and "fairly." Based on electronic corpora, a quantitative analysis of their long-term history is provided using the framework of adverb functions proposed by Quirk et al (1995). (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Adverbs, Computational Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, English
Statistical Linguistics and Theoretical Linguistics
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Roceric, A. – Language Sciences, 1973
Paper presented during a colloquium on mathematical linguistics at the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, May 26, 1972. (RS)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Lexicology, Linguistic Theory, Mathematical Linguistics