Exploring intensification : synchronic, diachronic and cross-linguistic perspectives /

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: International Conference on Intensity, intensification and Intensifying Modification across Languages University of Eastern Piedmont
Otros Autores: Napoli, Maria, 1977- (Editor ), Ravetto, Miriam (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017]
Colección:Studies in Language Companion Ser.
Temas:
Intensification (Linguistics) > Congresses.
Languages, Modern > Intensification > Congresses.
Semantics, Comparative > Congresses.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Morphology > Congresses.
Langues vivantes > Intensifs > Congrès.
Sémantique comparée > Congrès.
Morphologie (Linguistique) > Congrès.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > General.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Morphology
Semantics, Comparative
Conference papers and proceedings
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Exploring Intensification
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • LCC data
  • Table of contents
  • New insights on intensification and intensifiers
  • References
  • Part I. The category of intensification
  • Chapter 1. The comparative basis of intensification
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Demonstratives and (interrogative) exclamatives as exophoric expressions of comparison
  • 3. Comparison and comparatives: Standard not given in external situation
  • Parameter D: Number of dimensions: (n â#x89;Þ 1)
  • 4. Comparison as basis for intensification and intensifiers
  • 5. Subjectivity6. Measurement as comparison
  • 7. Summary and conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Author queries
  • Chapter 2. Intensification and focusing: The case of pure(ly) and mere(ly)
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Intensification and focusing: A preliminary demarcation
  • 3. Pure(ly) and mere(ly): A case study of intensification and focusing
  • 3.1 Descriptive modification
  • 3.2 Intensification
  • 3.3 Focusing
  • 4. Intensification vs. focusing
  • 4.1 Scalarity
  • 4.2 Subjectivity and intersubjectivity
  • 4.3 Diachrony of intensification and focusing5. Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Corpora
  • Appendix
  • Author queries
  • Chapter 3. Intensification processes in Italian: A survey
  • 1. Intensification as evaluative morphology
  • 2. The data
  • 2.1 A short state of the art
  • 2.2 Italian intensive constructions
  • 3. An intensification cline?
  • 3.1 Multiple intensification
  • 3.2 Synonymous intensifiers
  • 4. Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Appendix
  • Author queries
  • Chapter 4. Noun classification in Kiswahili: Linguistic strategies to intensify or to reduce1. Introduction
  • 2. Noun class system in Kiswahili
  • 3. Noun classes in Kiswahili: Are they semantic or arbitrary?
  • 3.1 The point of view of the scholars
  • 3.2 The weight of diachrony
  • 4. Evaluation from inflection towards derivation
  • 4.1 Inflection or derivation?
  • 5. The morpheme (
  • )ji- from class prefix to evaluation marker
  • 5.1 ji- as cl. 5 prefix
  • 5.2 ji- as evaluation affix
  • 6. Diminutives
  • 6.1 ki-ji-
  • 7. Conclusions
  • References
  • Author queriesPart II. Strategies of intensification in ancient languages: Hittite, Greek and Latin
  • Chapter 5. Intensification and intensifying modification in Hittite
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Hittite language
  • 3. Morphological strategies of intensification
  • 3.1 Reduplication
  • 3.2 Deverbative suffixes
  • 3.3 The element hanti-
  • 4. Lexical strategies of intensification
  • 4.1 Degree of adjectives
  • 4.2 The particle â#x80;#x91;pat
  • 4.3 Repetition and other phenomena of intensification
  • 5. Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • References

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