On Intensifiers and Categorial Shift: The Case of Temperature Terms in Italian
In this squib, we consider the issue of categorization applied to temperature terms, specifically targeting the use of nominal elements as intensifiers in a series of morphosyntactic contexts in Italian. We show that a set of (light) nouns can be used as evaluative classifiers, and that – at the sa...
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| Language: | English |
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Firenze University Press
2022-08-01
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| Series: | Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali |
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| Online Access: | https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-qulso/article/view/13600 |