Introduction
Evaluative adverbs - a large and open class of adverbs that express the attitude of the speaker towards the information she is conveying - can systematically modify gradable adjectives as well as complete sentences.
I would like to thank Rick Nouwen, three anonymous reviewers and the audience of the ESSLLI Student Session 2010 in Copenhagen for many useful discussions, comments and questions on this paper and previous versions of it.
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de Vries, H. (2012). The Syntax and Semantics of Evaluative Degree Modification. In: Lassiter, D., Slavkovik, M. (eds) New Directions in Logic, Language and Computation. ESSLLI ESSLLI 2010 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7415. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31467-4_13
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