This book investigates the troubled relationship between medieval studies and medievalism. Acknowledging that the medieval and medievalism are mutually constitutive, and that their texts can be read using similar strategies, it argues that medieval writers offer powerful models for the ways in which
Affecting meaning: Subjectivity and evaluativity in gradable adjectives [PhD Thesis]
β Scribed by Maria Ines Crespo
- Publisher
- University of Amsterdam
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 262
- Series
- ILLC Dissertation Series DS-2015-01
- Category
- Library
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