TY  - BOOK
AU  - Claudia Lange
PY  - 2021
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - Reflexivity and Intensification in English
T2  - A Study of Texts and Contexts
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1100945
N2  - Present-Day English is unique among the Germanic languages in employing the same forms (himself, herself etc.) both as reflexive pronoun and intensifier. While a lot of attention has been directed at the grammaticalization of the compound reflexive, the emergence of the compound intensifier has remained largely mysterious. This study is a detailed investigation of the domains of reflexivity and intensification throughout the history of English. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the possible source contexts for SELF-forms in Old and Middle English. Backed up with a wide range of data from early Middle English, the compound intensifier is traced to discourse-pragmatic motivations: expressive strategies linked to specific discourse traditions become rapidly grammaticalized once the former Old English standard gave way to large-scale variation in Middle English.
KW  - Englisch, Reflexivität (Linguistik), Steigerungspartikel, Grammatikalisierung, Reflexivität, Intensifikator, Diskurstradition
LA  - English
ER  -