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SEMANTIC AND COMMUNICATIVE-GRAMMATICAL FEATURES OF THE LEXEME ‘QUITE’

Marina Lazarevna Avakova
Pyatigorsk State Linguistic University


Submitted: September 12, 2014
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
Key words and phrases:
наречие степени
интенсификатор
модификатор прилагательных и наречий
downtoner
maximizer
degree adverb
intensifier
adjectival and adverbial modifier
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