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    Comment "surintensifier" les expressions d’intensité ? L’exemple des collocations ADJ /V comme SN et ADJ / N à faire VINF.
    (Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones, 2021) Izert, Malgorzata; Pilecka, Ewa
    In this article we present some syntactic characteristics and a variety of productive semantic mechanisms of the intensi#cation of the collocations selected for this study, namely Adj comme SN ou V comme SN et Adj à (faire) Vinf ou N à faire Vinf. All of them already mark a strong, indeterminate intensity, they express a standard lexical function «intensity» henceforth (Intens), inspired by the simple function Magn of the Mel’þuk’s model, (1996) re$ecting the syntagmatic relation between a base (argument) and intensi#er collocations (predicate). These collocations are combined by overlapping or embedding with other collocations. By these combinatorial operations, one obtains over intensi#ed expressions which are the result of either occasional modi#cation (hapax) without the chance for lexicalisation, or spontaneous motivated modi#cations which may one day become lexicalized. All of them can be productive themselves under the new patterns, e.g. bête à faire pleurer un âne or fumer comme une vieille locomotive à vapeur, etc.