An Analysis of the High-Degree Pattern "No the Most X,Only More X"
The structure"No the most X,only more X"has two semantics:encouragement,wishes and high-degree evaluation.After continuous analysis and temporal comparison,the evaluation meaning of the high-degree pattern"No the most X,only more X"develops from the meaning of encouragement and wishes,and only the components with quantitative characteristics can enter the high-degree pattern.The emerging mechanism is that the quantity range gradually adjust and eventually produce high degree meaning under the operation of the unexpected and the speaker,which is the primary cause leading to the magnitude change of degree adverbs"most"and"more".From the perspective of pragmatic function,this high-degree pattern has function of emphasis and anti-expectation.The magnitude transition of"more"and"most"reflects that the magnitude sequence of degree adverb is elastic in a certain context,and this problem deserves further discussion.
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