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Death-related Intensifiers in the History of English

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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 b...

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1. Verfasser: Blanco-Suárez, Zeltia
Format: Online
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers 2025
Schlagworte:
applied linguistics
Blanco
Byrne
corpus linguistics
Damian
Davis
Death
English
English language and linguistics
Graeme
Grammaticalisation
historical linguistics
History
history of the English language
intensifiers
Phenomena
semantic change
semantics and pragmatics
Suárez
subjectification
variation and change
Zeltia
thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFF Historical and comparative linguistics
thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFG Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics
thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFX Computational and corpus linguistics
thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DB Ancient, classical and medieval texts
thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism
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Zusammenfassung: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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