Quantité et qualité dans les pléonasmes : le rôle des adjectifs

Abstract

How but also why tie up pleonasms with semantic universals as quantification and qualification ? By showing that in structures containing sequences of the type Noun + attributive adjective (“adjectif épithète” in French), the latter ensures completely its semantic function : either by quantifying with an intensive value, either by simply characterizing the Noun, rather from the speaker’s standpoint and not by its notional content, either again by identifying a part of the entire “Time” set. Thus, adjectives are efficient in descriptions and they depict the speaker’s conception of the “objective” reality. Pleonasms relate the world, indeed in a different manner, but they do not relate tautology