Table of contents
New insights on intensification and intensifiers
1
Part I.The category of intensification
Chapter 1.The comparative basis of intensification
15
Chapter 2.Intensification and focusing: The case of pure(ly) and mere(ly)
33
Chapter 3.Intensification processes in Italian: a survey
55
Chapter 4.Noun classification in Kiswahili: Linguistic strategies to intensify or to reduce
79
Part II.Strategies of intensification in ancient languages: Hittite, Greek and Latin
Chapter 5.Intensification and intensifying modification in Hittite
101
Chapter 6.Diminutives in Ancient Greek: intensification and subjectivity
127
Chapter 7.
Nulla sum, nulla sum: tota, tota occidi. Repetition as a (rare) strategy of intensification in Latin
147
Part III.Strategies of intensification in modern languages: Italian, German, English
Chapter 8.Intensifiers between grammar and pragmatics. A lesson from a language contact situation
173
Chapter 9.Stress and tones as intensifying operators in German
193
Chapter 10.English exclamative clauses and interrogative degree modification
207
Part IV.Contrastive analysis of intensification in Italian and German
Chapter 11.A pragmatic view on intensification: expansions in German and Italian
231
Chapter 12.Intensifying structures of adjectives across German and Italian
251
Chapter 13.The coordination of identical conjuncts as a means of strengthening expressions in German and Italian
265
Chapter 14.What does reduplication intensify? The semantics and pragmatics of reduplicated forms in Italian and their equivalents in German
289
Chapter 15.Intensification strategies in German and Italian written language. The case of prefissi intensivi or Fremdpräfixe. A corpus-based study
305
Chapter 16.Ways to intensify: types of intensified meanings in German and Italian
327
Chapter 17.Augmentatives in Italian and German: from contrastive analysis to translation
353
Chapter 18.Intentional vagueness: a corpus-based analysis of Italian and German
371
Index
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