Adjectival intensification in West Germanic: A corpus-based comparison of Afrikaans, Dutch, English and German
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sl.23016.van" target="_blank" >10.1075/sl.23016.van</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Adjectival intensification in West Germanic: A corpus-based comparison of Afrikaans, Dutch, English and German
Original language description
"Abstract This article investigates the forms and functions of adjectival intensification in West Germanic. With corpus data from different discourse types, we challenge claims that German tends to use synthetic means and Dutch is between German and English but more like English in its preference for analytic ones. Our results show that all three languages, and Afrikaans too, favor analytic intensifiers but also that only English employs synthetic ones to a lesser extent. The other languages are found to use synthetic forms more especially in literature. The study also offers corpus-based support for an earlier hypothesis that both English and German prefer amplifying to downtoning adjectives. We show that this tendency exists more pronouncedly in Afrikaans and Dutch too and that English speech stands out with more functionally ambiguous intensifiers. The article also explores possible explanations for its findings in (dis)similarities in word formation, discourse types’ linguistic potential and politeness"
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Classification
Type
J<sub>ost</sub> - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)
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Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Name of the periodical
"Studies in Language. International Journal sponsored by the Foundation “Foundations of Language”"
ISSN
0378-4177
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Volume of the periodical
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Issue of the periodical within the volume
2023-10-31
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
36
Pages from-to
1-36
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