I quite fancy this: Quite as a degree modifier of verbs in written British English

This paper focuses on the readings of quite as a degree modifier of verbs in written English on the basis of the British National Corpus (BNC). The study explores the semantic constraints that govern the relationship between quite and the verbs it combines with in terms of their conceptualization, which reflects the presence or absence of boundaries, i.e. boundedness/ unboundedness. Two types of gradable verbs are distinguished: those which are associated with a boundary and those which are not. It is shown that the gradable features of the verbs that apply to quite must harmonize with the grading function of quite for a successful match.