Quality, quantity and beyond: The semantic development of favorable attributes

Several French and Hebrew adjectives denote favorable qualities as well as upscaling quantification for example (bon ‘good’, beau ‘beautiful’, honorable ‘honorable’, digne ‘worthy’, ‘respectable’) salaire ‘salary’ and their Hebrew counterparts. Yet, only French bon and its Hebrew counterpart t...

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Main Authors: Hagit Shefer, Hava Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Université de Lille 2020-07-01
Series:Lexique
Online Access:http://www.peren-revues.fr/lexique/index.php?id=505