[Corpora-List] Boosting Words List

[Alexander Osherenko]

Hi Kiran,

[Quirk, R., Greenbaum, S. 1988. A University Grammar of English.
Longman Publishing Group] describe thorough taxonomy of intensifiers.  It
contains not only maximizers or minimizers but much more.

1. Emphasizers, e.g. definitely;
2. Amplifiers: maximizers, e.g. completely and boosters, e.g. very much;
3. Downtoners: comprimisers, e.g. kind of, diminishers, e.g. partly,
minimizers, e.g. hardly,
approximators, e.g. almost.

Best

Alexander
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