„Absolutely“ modifying adjectives in British and Bulgarian newspapers in comparison with the British national corpus
The paper studies the collocations formed by ‘absolutely’ used as an adverbial intensifier for modifying adjectives in a corpus of Letters to the Editor, published in British and Bulgarian newspapers, and the BNC. The results of the study show the similarities between the collocations of ‘absolutely...
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Konstantin Preslavsky University of Shumen
2016-11-01
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| Series: | Studies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT |
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| Online Access: | http://silc.shu.bg/images/issues/2016/SILC_2016_1_057-064_8_EN.pdf |