Old English intensifiers The beginnings of the English intensifier system
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jhl.20011.str" target="_blank" >10.1075/jhl.20011.str</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Old English intensifiers The beginnings of the English intensifier system
Original language description
While many studies have employed variationist methods to examine longitudinal changes in the English intensifier system, to date, no variationist studies have tackled the intensifier system of Old English. By providing a critical view of this system at an earlier stage in the history of the English language, the present study adds to the long tradition of scholarship on intensifiers while providing new insight into their diachronic development. Despite its antiquity, several parallels can be drawn with the intensifier system at later stages in the language. Both internal and external factors are found to constrain this system, with predicative adjectives favoring intensification over attributive adjectives, prose texts having higher intensification rates than verse texts, Latin-based texts having higher intensification rates than vernacular texts, and the rate of intensification increasing over time. The quantitative analysis of the Old English system also increases the time depth necessary for a more detailed reflection on the diachronic recycling, replacement, and renewal of intensifiers. Language contact and borrowing are also postulated as driving forces of innovation and replacement in earlier stages of the English language.
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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 Historical Linguistics
ISSN
2210-2116
e-ISSN
2210-2124
Volume of the periodical
12
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
39
Pages from-to
31-69
UT code for WoS article
000722903600001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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