How to tame inference? Some remarks on result clauses expressing intensification Cover Image

Comment apprivoiser l’inférence ? Quelques remarques sur le modèle consécutif intensif
How to tame inference? Some remarks on result clauses expressing intensification

Author(s): Teresa Muryn
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Logic
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: inference; result clause with intensification

Summary/Abstract: The objective of the present paper is to propose a semantic model of intensification considered as a second order predication, which corresponds to a result clause having two variants, habitual and specific. The realization of this model and its frequency depends on the semantic variant and on the type of discourse.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 28
  • Page Range: 193-207
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: French