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| has gloss | eng: In grammar, an intensive form of a word is one which denotes stronger or more forceful action as compared with the root on which the intensive is built. Intensives are usually lexical formations, but there may be a regular process for forming intensives from a base root. Intensive formations, for example, existed in Proto-Indo-European, and in many of the Semitic languages. |
| lexicalization | eng: intensive |
| instance of | (noun) the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics) grammar |
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