La (dés)-intensification dans les adjectifs latins : les morphèmes de degré
Michèle Fruyt · Journal of Latin Linguistics · 2005
Summary Latin gradable adjectives can be modified by prefixes and suffixes which can be intensifies or disintensi fiers. They have the semantic particularity of showing the notion of a scalar progression, a subcategory of quantification. They could be called scalar morphemes. The intensification may be either towards a high or a low degree of realisation of the notion. We study here three productive scalar morphemes :