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Adjectives & Adverbs

Adjective agreement, placement, comparatives, superlatives and adverbs
Aggettivo: sintassi e semantica
Adjective: syntax and semantics
position and interpretation
How position affects adjective meaning
Aggettivi intersettivi e non
Intersective vs non-intersective adjectives
un bravo medico (non-int.)
Semantic classes of adjectives
Gradazione e scalarità
Gradation and scalarity
gradable vs non-gradable
Scale structure of Italian adjectives
Avverbi di frase
Sentence adverbs
francamente, probabilmente, purtroppo
Speaker-oriented adverbials
Avverbi focalizzanti
Focusing adverbs
solo, anche, perfino, proprio
Focus particles and their scope
Participio presente e passato: usi
Present and past participle: uses
attributive, absolute, verbal
Full range of participial functions
Costruzioni assolute
Absolute constructions
finita la lezione, uscì
Participial and gerundial absolutes
Modificazione nominale complessa
Complex nominal modification
stacked modifiers
Multiple modifiers in the noun phrase
Fraseologia e collocazioni
Phraseology and collocations
prendere una decisione, fare attenzione
Fixed expressions and light-verb constructions
Stile nominale
Nominal style
noun-heavy formal/bureaucratic style
Nominalisation in formal Italian