Degree words [By] Dwight Bolinger.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- WORKS REFERRED TO BY AUTHORS' NAMES ALONE -- Introduction -- 1. Intensifies with Adjectives -- 2. Some Restrictions on Intensifiers Primarily with Adjectives -- 3. The Intensification of Nouns -- 4. The Making of Intensifiers by Grammatical Shifts -- 5. Litotes and Negation -- 6. Intensifiers with the Preposition Of -- 7. Prosodic Interference and the Indefinite Article -- 8. Degree Nouns with Relatively Ungrammaticized Intensifiers -- 9. Intensifiers with Verbs -- 10. Degree Verbs and Adjectives with So and How

11. Much with Verbs12. Degree Verbs with Other Grammaticized Intensifiers -- 13. Degree Verbs with Relatively Ungrammaticized Intensifiers -- 14. Formalized Redundancy and Semantic Analysis -- 15. Intensification by Stretching -- 16. The Intensification of Nouns that Premodify -- 17. Why Degree Nouns Behave Like Pronouns -- Appendix -- Postscript -- Main Index -- Word Index

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