Eintrag

Titel

Exploring intensification: synchronic, diachronic and cross-linguistic perspectives

Personen

Maria Napoli, Miriam Ravetto

Jahr

2017

Typ

Monographie

Verlag

John Benjamins Publishing Co.

Ort

Amsterdam, Philadelphia

ISBN

978-90-272-5954-7

Reihe

Studies in language

Band

189

URI

https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/slcs.189/main

Sprache(n)

Verschiedene

Schlagwörter

Intensivierwörter
Semantik
Syntax

Abstract

This book is the first collective volume specifically devoted to the multifaceted phenomenon of intensification, which has been traditionally regarded as related to the expression of degree, scaling a quality downwards or upwards. In spite of the large amount of studies on intensifiers, there is still a need for the characterization of intensification as a distinct functional category in the domain of modification. The eighteen papers of the volume contribute to this aim with a new approach (mainly corpus-based). They focus on intensification from different perspectives (both synchronic and diachronic) and theoretical frameworks, concern ancient languages (Hittite, Greek, Latin) and modern languages (mainly Italian, German, English, Kiswahili), and involve different levels of analysis. They also identify and examine different types of intensifiers, applied to different forms and structures, such as adverbs, adjectives, evaluative affixes, discourse markers, reduplication, exclamative clauses, coordination, prosodic elements, and shed light on issues which have not been extensively studied so far.

https://grammis.ids-mannheim.de/bdg/100483