Death-related Intensifiers in the History of English
Grammaticalisation and Related Phenomena
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Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Intensification and intensifiers in language
- Chapter 3 Grammaticalisation
- Chapter 4 English intensifiers: A historical overview
- Chapter 5 Methodology
- Chapter 6 A corpus-based analysis of death-related intensifiers in English
- Chapter 7 Concluding remarks and suggestions for future research
- Bibliography
- Sources
- Index
- Series index
Zeltia Blanco-Suárez
Death-related Intensifiers in the History of English Grammaticalisation and Related Phenomena
PETER LANG
Oxford - Berlin - Bruxelles - Chennai - Lausanne - New York
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Names: Blanco-Suárez, Zeltia, 1985- author.
Title: Death-related intensifiers in the history of English : grammaticalisation and related phenomena / Zeltia Blanco-Suárez.
Description: Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, 2025. |
Series: English corpus linguistics, 1610-868X ; volume no. 18 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2024051545 (print) | LCCN 2024051546 (ebook) | ISBN 9781803745145 (paperback) | ISBN 9781803745152 (ebook) | ISBN 9781803745169 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: English language--Intensification. | English language--Grammaticalization. | Death.
Classification: LCC PE1321 .B57 2025 (print) | LCC PE1321 (ebook) | DDC 425--dc23/eng/20241210
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2024051545
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2024051546
This research has received financial support from the Regional Government of Galicia (Consellería de Cultura, Educación, Formación Profesional e Universidades, grant number ED431B 2023/03).
ISSN 1610-868X
ISBN 978-1-80374-514-5 (print)
ISBN 978-1-80374-515-2 (ePDF)
ISBN 978-1-80374-516-9 (ePub)
DOI 10.3726/ b21920
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About the author
Zeltia Blanco-Suárez is Senior Lecturer at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. She was actively involved in the compilation of the legal component of A Representative Corpus of Historical English Registers 3.2 and the Corpus of Historical English Law Reports 1535–1999. Her research interests include historical and corpus linguistics.
About the book
An all-important question for humans, death is unsurprisingly used as a source of intensification in language, perhaps even cross-linguistically. This book explores the use of death for intensification purposes in English and aims to shed light on how certain forms from this semantic field came to be used with an intensifying function over time, specifically dead(ly), mortal(ly) and to death. The author provides a full account of the evolution of these intensifiers from their origins up to present-day English from the perspective of grammaticalisation and other concomitant phenomena. To this end, this corpus-based research resorts to evidence from historical dictionaries, diachronic corpora and electronic collections. The study conducted, unprecedented in the number of examples analysed, combines both a qualitative and a quantitative approach to provide the most comprehensive picture of the long diachrony of these intensifiers.
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- Pages
- XXII, 330
- Publication Year
- 2025
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9781803745152
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9781803745169
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9781803745145
- DOI
- 10.3726/b21920
- Open Access
- CC-BY
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2025 (March)
- Keywords
- English language and linguistics history of the English language variation and change historical linguistics corpus linguistics applied linguistics semantics and pragmatics intensifiers semantic change grammaticalisation subjectification
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- Oxford, Berlin, Bruxelles, Chennai, Lausanne, New York, 2025. XXII, 330 pp., 17 fig. col., 3 fig. b/w, 178 tables.
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