Comment exprimer en mots l’intensité de l’amour pour un être bien-aimé ?
How to Express the Intensity of Love in Words?

Summary/Abstract: In this paper, we present a forecast of search results for intensifiers that combine with the keywords amour, amoureux, aimer in the proposed Electronic Dictionary of Intensifying Linguistics Structures in French Language – Dictionnaire électronique des structures linguistiques d’intensité en français (DESLIF), and also an attempt to define the way how these results could be incorporated into the entries of this dictionary. Adjectives, adverbs, verbs, intensifying constructs comme SN / comme P / à SV and marked synonyms of the keywords, notifying strong or weak intensity, will be examined. The method used to describe the material is based on assumptions of Explanatory-Combinatorial Lexicology by Mel’čuk & Polguère. The examples come from linguistics corpora and allow particularly to report the use of such intensifiers in colloquial, popular and slang French.

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