Extreme nouns and maximizers

Masià, Melania S.

dc.contributor.author	Masià, Melania S.
dc.date.accessioned	2025-01-10T07:30:50Z
dc.date.available	2025-01-10T07:30:50Z
dc.date.issued	2025-01-10
dc.identifier.citation	Masià, S. M. (2018). Extreme nouns and maximizers. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, 22(2), 143–161
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11201/167531
dc.description.abstract	[eng] Maximizers (completamente ‘completely’, totalmente ‘totally’) are degree modifiers restricted to maximum standard adjectives. Spanish adjectives of completeness [ACs] (completo ‘complete’, total ‘total’) display a behavior similar to that of their adverbial counterparts when they combine with nouns like idiot. This paper argues that ACs are maximality modifiers of idiot-like nouns, which are defended to be gradable and denote extreme degrees of properties. Establishing a parallelism between adverbs and adjectives of completeness allows us to explore scalarity across categories and the relevance of scale structure in the nominal domain.	en
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dc.relation.ispartof	Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, 2018, vol. 22, num. 2, p. 143–161
dc.subject	80 - Qüestions generals de la lingüística i la literatura. Filologia	ca
dc.subject	81 - Lingüística i llengües	ca
dc.subject.other	Extreme nouns	ca
dc.subject.other	Maximizers	ca
dc.subject.other	Adjectives of completeness	ca
dc.subject.other	Scale structure	ca
dc.subject.other	Nominal gradability	ca
dc.title	Extreme nouns and maximizers	ca
dc.type	Article
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
dc.rights.accessRights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.21248/zaspil.61.2018.489	ca