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Reflexivity and Intensification in English

A Study of Texts and Contexts

de Claudia Lange (Auteur)
©2007 Thèses XII, 208 Pages
Série: Arbeiten zur Sprachanalyse, Volume 46

Résumé

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.

Résumé des informations

Pages
XII, 208
Année de publication
2007
ISBN (Broché)
9783631543573
Langue
anglais
Mots clés
Englisch Reflexivität (Linguistik) Steigerungspartikel Grammatikalisierung Reflexivität Intensifikator Diskurstradition
Publié
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2007. XII, 208 pp., 20 fig., 20 tables
Sécurité des produits
Peter Lang Group AG

Notes biographiques

Claudia Lange (Auteur)

The Author: Claudia Lange studied Linguistics at the Freie Universität Berlin and at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She is currently working as a lecturer in Linguistics at the Technische Universität Dresden.

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