Exploring Intensification: Synchronic, diachronic and cross-linguistic perspectives
Edited by Maria Napoli and Miriam Ravetto
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 189] 2017. vii, 394 pp.
Maria Napoli
List of John Benjamins publications for which Maria Napoli plays a role.
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Subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
2017 New insights on intensification and intensifiers Exploring Intensification: Synchronic, diachronic and cross-linguistic perspectives, Napoli, Maria and Miriam Ravetto (eds.), pp. 1–12 | Chapter
2017 Chapter 16. Ways to intensify: Types of intensified meanings in Italian and German Exploring Intensification: Synchronic, diachronic and cross-linguistic perspectives, Napoli, Maria and Miriam Ravetto (eds.), pp. 327–352 | Chapter
Intensification has traditionally been regarded as a category that is closely related to the concept of degree, i.e., to gradability (since Bolinger 1972). However, as has been shown by, among others, Paradis (2001, 2008), intensifiers are used not only with gradable bases (as adjectives typically… read more
2013 Semantic constraints on the Latin impersonal passive: On telicity and agentivity Argument Structure in Flux: The Naples-Capri Papers, Gelderen, Elly van, Jóhanna Barðdal and Michela Cennamo (eds.), pp. 373–404 | Article
This paper focuses on a specific type of impersonal construction in Latin, the so-called impersonal passive, which is based on the third person singular of the passive voice. Using a corpus-based analysis of the Latin data, I will investigate the introduction of a prepositional agentive phrase in… read more
2009 Aspects of definiteness in Greek Studies in Language 33:3, pp. 569–611 | Article