No. 70 (2017): Southern Archive (philological sciences)
Romanic, Germanic and Oriental languages

ADJECTIVES IN COGNITIVE GRAMMAR

N. LAZEBNA
M. KUZNETSOVA

Published 2017-11-27

Keywords

  • adjectives,
  • boundedness,
  • gradability,
  • cognitive grammar

Abstract

The article deals with adjectives in terms of cognitive grammar. It is focused on two characteristics of adjectives: boundedness and gradability. The study brings in an innovative vision on boundedness in adjectives relevant to theory of lexical semantics and cognitive grammar.