Abstract
It is a well-known but little-studied fact that evaluative
adverbs - adverbs indicating the attitude of the speaker towards the
information she is conveying - can modify degree ('incredibly tall',
'ridiculously expensive'...). This thesis offers a syntactosemantic
account of evaluative degree modi fication of both gradable adjectives
and gradable nouns.
Following Morzycki (2004), I propose that
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