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"He loved his father but next to adored his mother": Nigh(ly), Near, and Next (To) as Downtoners

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11320%2F21%3A10439988" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11320/21:10439988 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Result on the web

    <a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=M2uitZ0egK" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=M2uitZ0egK</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0075424220979126" target="_blank" >10.1177/0075424220979126</a>

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    "He loved his father but next to adored his mother": Nigh(ly), Near, and Next (To) as Downtoners

  • Original language description

    In Present-Day English, nearly functions as an approximator downtoner meaning &apos;almost, all but, virtually,&apos; as do earlier variants based on the same root-nigh, nighly, near, next (to)-though more rarely and in more restricted contexts. Nigh functions as an approximator downtoner in Old and Middle English. When near displaces nigh, nigh is retained as a downtoner with lexical adjectives expressing negative semantic prosody. Near is used as a downtoner in later Middle and Early Modern English. However, degree adjunct uses are not well attested, thus pointing to incomplete grammaticalization. During the eighteenth century, the new -ly form (nearly) takes over the innovative downtoner function and the old form (near) is retained in the original locative sense, with some remnant downtoner uses. Next (to) grammaticalizes as a downtoner, but proceeds only to the degree modifier stage and involves a high degree of idiomaticization, thus suggesting incipient grammaticalization. As spatial adverbs, nigh/near/next (to)/nearly represent one of the well-known sources for the grammaticalization of degree adverbs. However, these forms seem to follow a pathway where the degree modifier use (adjective/participle modifier) precedes the degree adjunct use (verb modifier), contrary to the reverse pathway postulated for other degree adverbs.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    60203 - Linguistics

Result continuities

  • Project

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Others

  • Publication year

    2021

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Name of the periodical

    Journal of English Linguistics

  • ISSN

    0075-4242

  • e-ISSN

    1552-5457

  • Volume of the periodical

    49

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    1

  • Country of publishing house

    US - UNITED STATES

  • Number of pages

    22

  • Pages from-to

    39-60

  • UT code for WoS article

    000609722400001

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database

    2-s2.0-85098751886