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Adjectival intensification in West Germanic: A corpus-based comparison of Afrikaans, Dutch, English and German

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11320%2F23%3A64E536QR" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11320/23:64E536QR - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Result on the web

    <a href="https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/sl.23016.van" target="_blank" >https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/sl.23016.van</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sl.23016.van" target="_blank" >10.1075/sl.23016.van</a>

Alternative languages

  • 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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  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>ost</sub> - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

  • CEP classification

  • 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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Others

  • Publication year

    2023

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Name of the periodical

    "Studies in Language. International Journal sponsored by the Foundation “Foundations of Language”"

  • ISSN

    0378-4177

  • e-ISSN

  • Volume of the periodical

    ""

  • 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

  • UT code for WoS article

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database