The oft-maligned hyperbolic extension of literally is nothing new—it’s been around since the 1700s—but do other adverbs behave in the same way? Recent uses of definitely and totally suggest that the ...

The Gricean maxim of Quality "Try to make your contribution one that is true" and his maxim of Manner "Be perspicuous" are not observed in Kilivila, the Austronesian language of the Trobriand ...

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