Series | LiVVaL
Edited book | Heritage Languages and Variation
Chapter | The Variation of Evaluation
The Variation of Evaluation
Abstract
The essay discusses the phenomenon of evaluation and different dimensions of evaluative morphology in Modern Greek both from a descriptive and a theoretical perspective, focusing on intensification, deintensification, augmentation, and diminution. It is shown that adverbial preverbs in Modern Greek that have a degree function are used as evaluative morphemes and are categorized into the evaluative classes of boosters, maximizers, diminishers, and maximizing minimizers. The semantic analysis provided captures formally these categories. The study is of importance since it presents the variation of evaluation in Modern Greek.
Submitted: July 26, 2023 | Accepted: Nov. 16, 2023 | Published July 18, 2024 | Language: en
Keywords Adverbial preverbs • Affixes • Deintensification • Intensification • Evaluative morphology • Evaluation
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