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Gradation is usually considered to be a property of adjectives. Examples like 'The boy loves his mother very much' and 'The boy has grown a lot' reveal that gradation is not limited to adjectives but verbs are gradable too. Verb gradation has received considerably less attention in the literature than gradation of adjectives. The aim of the current volume is to explore the notion of verb gradation in more detail. The book presents a semantic as well as a syntactic analysis of verb gradation and combines three case studies with a general perspective on the phenomenon. Issues addressed in the volume cover, among others, the notion of scalarity in the verbal domain, the interaction of verb gradation with grammatical as well as lexical aspect and verb gradation as a subcompositional phenomenon. These topics are investigated from a cross-linguistic perspective. The languages of investigation include, among others, German, Russian and French.

LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General. --- Aktionsart. --- Change of state verbs. --- Collaborative Research Center. --- Compositional patterns. --- Cross-categorical distribution. --- Cross-linguistic distribution. --- DFG. --- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. --- Dissertations in Language and Cognition. --- Doetjes. --- Emission verbs. --- Erratic verbs. --- Event-dependent degree gradation. --- Experiencer verbs. --- French. --- Gerhard Schurz. --- German. --- Grammatical aspect. --- Hana Filip. --- Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. --- Japanese degree verb. --- Kennedy. --- Laura Kallmeyer. --- Manner/result complementarity. --- McNally. --- Object-experiencer verbs. --- Peter Indefrey. --- Predicate decomposition. --- Reference Grammar. --- Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. --- Role Grammar. --- Russian. --- SFB 991. --- Scalar changes. --- Scope relationships. --- Sebastian Löbner. --- Semantic type. --- Semantic verb classes. --- Semantics of intensifiers. --- Sonderforschungsbereich 991. --- Subcompositionality of verbal degree gradation. --- Subject-experiencer verbs. --- Tenny. --- The structure of representations in language, cognition and science. --- Tsujimura. --- Vecchiato. --- adjective gradation. --- adnominal degree expression. --- adverbial beaucoup. --- case study. --- classification. --- cognitive concepts. --- compositional patterns. --- cross-linguistic perspective. --- degree expression continuum. --- degree expression. --- degree gradation. --- degree verb. --- event structure. --- gradation of adjectives. --- gradation of verbs. --- gradation. --- lexical aspect. --- lexicalization of scales. --- light emission. --- linguistic representation. --- linguistic structure. --- mental representation. --- scalarity. --- semantic analysis of verb gradation. --- smell emission. --- sound emission. --- subcompositional phenomenon. --- substance emission. --- syntactic ambiguity of beaucoup. --- syntactic analysis of verb gradation. --- telicity. --- verb gradation. --- verbal domain.