Jessica Schmidt
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jessica Schmidt plays a role.
Article
2022 Chapter 3. Do intensifiers lose their expressive force over time? A corpus linguistic study Particles in German, English, and Beyond, Gergel, Remus, Ingo Reich and Augustin Speyer (eds.), pp. 69–94 | Chapter
This article presents a corpus study of German intensifiers, which was conducted with the goal to test the hypothesis of Biedermann (1969) that intensifiers lose their expressivity over time. Following the author, frequently used intensifiers wear out, which results in a loss of expressivity.… read more