Intensifiers in English and German (eBook, PDF)

A Comparison
Redaktion: Siemund, Peter

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book deals with expressions like English myself, yourself, himself and so on, and German selbst from a perspective of language comparison. It is the first book-length study of intensifiers ever written. The study investigates the syntax and semantics of these expressions and provides a thorough account of a much neglected grammatical domain. Given that the approach is both descriptive and analytic, the book will be of interest to linguists, grammar writers and teachers of English and German alike.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134604494
• Artikelnr.: 38249852

Autorenporträt

Peter Siemund

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 1.1 Background 1.2 Three uses of intensifiers 1.3 Outline
and objectives 2. The Syntax of Intensifiers - Overview 2.1 The three uses
of intensifiers 2.2 Intensifiers as focus particles 2.3 Related expressions
2.4 Previous analyses 2.5 Historical development 3. Adnominal Intensifiers
3.1 Adnominal SELF - overt heads 3.1.1 ANS - the NP-Adjunct 3.1.2 Syntactic
restrictions 3.2 Adnominal SELF - covert heads 3.3 ANS in role reversal
structures 4. Adverbal intensifiers 4.1 AVS - The VP-Adjunct 4.2 AVS as an
adverb 4.3 Syntactic restrictions 4.3.1 Passivisation and passives 4.3.2
Topicalisation 4.3.3 Scope bearing elements 4.3.4 Inclusive versus
exclusive AVS 5. The Meaning of Intensifiers - Overview 5.1 Three
approaches to intensifiers 5.2 The three uses of intensifiers 6. Adnominal
Intensifiers 6.1 Scalar and non-scalar approaches 6.2 Possible
instantiations of centre and periphery 6.3 Unique identifiability 6.4 ANS
in role reversal structures 7. Adverbal Inclusive Intensifiers 7.1 Adverbal
inclusive versus adnominal SELF 7.2 Repeatability and transferability 7.3
Contextual conditions 7.4 Comparison: inclusive AVS versus also 7.5
Inclusive AVS as ANS plus also 7.6 Scalar analyses 7.7 Presupposition:
negative proposition 7.8 Central representative theory 8. Adverbal
exclusive intensifiers 8.1 Basic properties 8.2 Responsibility, benefit and
suffering 8.3 Agentivity 8.4 Centrality in situation 9. Summary