SEMANTIC AND COMMUNICATIVE-GRAMMATICAL FEATURES OF THE LEXEME ‘QUITE’
Avakova Marina Lazarevna
Pyatigorsk State Linguistic University
Abstract. The article is devoted to the semantic analysis of the lexeme ‘quite’. The main meanings and lexical-grammatical features are described. It is revealed that being a degree adverb / an intensifying particle the lexeme ‘quite’ has a lowering or heightening effect on an abstractly conceived intensity scale. The lexeme ‘quite’ is synonymous with the lexemes ‘just’, ‘exactly’, ‘only’, ‘simply’, ‘really’ in their emphatic meanings
Key words and phrases: наречие степени, интенсификатор, модификатор прилагательных и наречий, downtoner, maximizer, degree adverb, intensifier, adjectival and adverbial modifier, downtoner, maximizer
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