A Semantic Study of Intensifiers
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This research investigates the new insights on intensification scale and intensifiers as target, and the sources of semantic change, the data collected from semantic references to build clear boundaries and to avoid vagueness between adverbs of degree and adverbs of intensity. Intensifier taxonomy is a cover term to refer to those adverbs that influence and thus strength or weaken the meaning of the adjective or adverb .Negativity will show new intensifiers with the cognitive psychological research. In gradability, intensifiers determine measurement and markedness , while binary features in intensification and comparison scales have grammaticalized adjectives and adverbs intensifiers. Finally completeness is an opposition model of markedness. Conclusion states that intensifiers are semantic prosody used to describe positive or negative meaning especially their connotation in semantic meaning or attitudinal meaning and by the semantics of pragmatic expression associated with particular collocation.
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