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Vol. 38:1 (2014) ► pp.171–209

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A novel dichotomy of the Korean adverb nemwu in opinion classification

 | Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
Published online: 25 April 2014
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https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.38.1.05nam
While the adverb nemwu, roughly equivalent to the intensifier too in English, has been considered an adverb that intensifies gradable predicates in excess, thereby provoking a negative interpretation, it can also be used to emphasize a positive evaluation in online subjective texts. Moreover, even in the sentences conveying a negative evaluation, only some of the occurrences of nemwu are used as a polarity reversing valence shifter. This paper proposes a novel dichotomy for the usages of nemwu, consisting of ‘Intensifying Adverbs’ (IAs) and ‘Opinion Introducers’ (OIs), and examines the necessary contexts for determining the function of the adverb.
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