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Old English intensifiers The beginnings of the English intensifier system

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11320%2F21%3A10440984" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11320/21:10440984 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Result on the web

    <a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=Kj8tRFQ-nI" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=Kj8tRFQ-nI</a>

  • 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.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    60203 - Linguistics

Result continuities

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Others

  • 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