Death-related Intensifiers in the History of English
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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| description | 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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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1577552025-07-30T09:00:06Z Death-related Intensifiers in the History of English Blanco-Suárez, Zeltia 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 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 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. 2025-03-25T07:46:18Z 2025-03-25T07:46:18Z 2025-03-24T14:11:14Z 2025 book ONIX_20250324_9781803745152_3 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/100298 9781803745169 9781803745145 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/157755 eng English Corpus Linguistics open access image/jpeg n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/100298/1/9781803745152.pdf Peter Lang International Academic Publishers 10.3726/b21920 10.3726/b21920 44a712f0-ee17-4c08-a667-46effed595e7 9781803745169 9781803745145 352 Bern open access |
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| topic | 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 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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