Graduation (Linguistics)


Gradation, grading - a process in the morphology of languages, allowing for the differentiation of adjectives and adverbs in terms of the intensity of a given feature. Grammatical category expressing gradation is a degree. Most Indo-European languages ​​are distinguished by three degrees: equal, which describes the feature itself, without information about its intensity (eg, large, heavy, nice), higher, which indicates greater intensity (bigger, heavier, nicer), and the highest Indicates the highest intensity (largest, heaviest, smallest). In some languages, such as in Welsh, there are so-called. Equalizer, showing the same intensity of features (eg hyned "same old as"). The degree can be expressed synthetically by means of inflexible (heavier, heavier) analytics, or analytically with an additive (more demanding).

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