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SEMANTIC AND COMMUNICATIVE-GRAMMATICAL FEATURES OF THE LEXEME ‘QUITE’
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Marina Lazarevna Avakova
Pyatigorsk State Linguistic University
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Submitted:
September 12, 2014
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Abstract.
The article is devoted to the semantic analysis of the lexeme ‘quite’. The main meanings and lexical-grammatical features are described. It is revealed that being a degree adverb / an intensifying particle the lexeme ‘quite’ has a lowering or heightening effect on an abstractly conceived intensity scale. The lexeme ‘quite’ is synonymous with the lexemes ‘just’, ‘exactly’, ‘only’, ‘simply’, ‘really’ in their emphatic meanings
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Key words and phrases:
наречие степени
интенсификатор
модификатор прилагательных и наречий
downtoner
maximizer
degree adverb
intensifier
adjectival and adverbial modifier
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