Synthetic Intensification Devices in Old English
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0075424221993850" target="_blank" >10.1177/0075424221993850</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Synthetic Intensification Devices in Old English
Original language description
Even though degree adverbs (e.g., swiþe) represent the most common intensification strategy in Old English, morphological devices are also very frequent, as expected in a predominantly synthetic language. This article studies synthetic intensification strategies in Old English with a focus on degree modification of adjectives and adverbs by means of spatial formatives (e.g., þurh- in þurhbitter 'very bitter' and for- in foreaþe 'very easily'), paying attention both to the features of the intensifying formative and to the characteristics of the intensified base. Using the cognitive construct of the "Image Schema," I show that the original spatial meaning of the formatives can help explain their combinatorial preferences in terms of boundedness. Of all the items studied, for- stands out as the most grammaticalized Old English spatial intensifying formative: it is semantically opaque, is very productive with both adjectives and adverbs, and has a very wide collocational profile.
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60203 - Linguistics
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Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of English Linguistics
ISSN
0075-4242
e-ISSN
1552-5457
Volume of the periodical
49
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
20
Pages from-to
208-227
UT code for WoS article
000634473300001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85103134294