Reflexivity and Intensification in English: A Study of Texts and Contexts (Arbeiten zur Sprachanalyse, Band 46) - Softcover

Lange, Claudia

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ISBN 10: 3631543573 ISBN 13: 9783631543573

Verlag: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2006

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Present-Day English is unique among the Germanic languages in employing the same forms (himself, herself etc.) both as reflexive pronoun and intensifier. While a lot of attention has been directed at the grammaticalization of the compound reflexive, the emergence of the compound intensifier has remained largely mysterious. This study is a detailed investigation of the domains of reflexivity and intensification throughout the history of English. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the possible source contexts for SELF-forms in Old and Middle English. Backed up with a wide range of data from early Middle English, the compound intensifier is traced to discourse-pragmatic motivations: expressive strategies linked to specific discourse traditions become rapidly grammaticalized once the former Old English standard gave way to large-scale variation in Middle English.

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The Author: Claudia Lange studied Linguistics at the Freie Universität Berlin and at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She is currently working as a lecturer in Linguistics at the Technische Universität Dresden.

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• Verlag: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3631543573
• ISBN 13: 9783631543573
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 202
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