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.
Miriam Ravetto
List of John Benjamins publications for which Miriam Ravetto plays a role.
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Subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
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
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