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Intensifiers in English and German - A Comparison (Hardcover)
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Intensifiers in English and German - A Comparison (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics
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Intensifiers play a profoundly important role in many areas of
grammar, notably reflexivity. This volume represents a study of
this neglected area. It explores the syntax and semantics of
intensifiers and offers a contrastive analysis of the properties of
these expressions in English and German. Such little work has been
done on intensifiers that not even their basic categorical status
is agreed on. Previous studies have subsumed them under classes as
heterogeneous as personal pronouns, reflexives and adverbs, with
all of these labels highlighting relevant aspects of their
distribution and semantic contribution. By contrast, the position
taken in this study is that intensifiers belong to the class of
focus particles. Due to its contrastive approach, the book will be
of interest to linguists of various persuasions. Theoreticians
should find challenging material highly relevant to late-1990s
syntactic and semantic controversies, while specialists of English
and German, as well as linguists working in language typology, can
expect analyses to complement their understanding of language.
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