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Exploring Intensification: Synchronic, diachronic and cross-linguistic perspectives
Edited by Maria Napoli and Miriam Ravetto
[Studies in Language Companion Series 189] 2017
► pp. 101–126

Chapter 5
Intensification and intensifying modification in Hittite

| Università per Stranieri di Siena

The present paper aims to describe intensification and intensifying modification in Hittite, a member of the Anatolian sub-branch of the extensive Indo-European family. Particular attention will be devoted to the following two questions: (i) Which are the most widespread means of intensification in Hittite? and (ii) Which linguistic levels are involved in the expression of intensification (phonological, grammatical, lexical, pragmatic or textual)? Using a corpus-based approach, the study integrates both quantitative and qualitative observations from a theoretical perspective that provides a semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic account of the intensification markers in different documented texts and genres in Hittite.

Keywords: Hittite language, morphological intensification, lexical intensification, graduation of adjectives, reduplication
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.The Hittite language
  • 3.Morphological strategies of intensification
    • 3.1Reduplication
    • 3.2Deverbative suffixes
    • 3.3The element hanti-
  • 4.Lexical strategies of intensification
    • 4.1Degree of adjectives
    • 4.2The particle ‑pat
    • 4.3Repetition and other phenomena of intensification
  • 5.Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 30 September 2017
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https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.189.06dar
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