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Intensifiers in English and German

A Comparison

Edited by Peter Siemund

Published November 25th 1999 by Routledge – 296 pages

Series: Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics

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This book deals with expressions like English myself, yourself, himself and so on, and German selbst from a perspective of language comparison. It is the first book-length study of intensifiers ever written. The study investigates the syntax and semantics of these expressions and provides a thorough account of a much neglected grammatical domain. Given that the approach is both descriptive and analytic, the book will be of interest to linguists, grammar writers and teachers of English and German alike.

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'…a stimulating read…full of carefully contextualized examples…I would recommend it not only to semanticists interested in focus particles and discourse structure, but also - strongly - to syntacticians, who will find here a goldmine of fascinating semantic and distributional material to feed their own reflection on clause structure.' - Anne Zribi-Hertz , ELL 2001

Name: Intensifiers in English and German: A Comparison (Hardback) – Routledge 
Description: Edited by Peter Siemund. This book deals with expressions like English myself, yourself, himself and so on, and German selbst from a perspective of language comparison. It is the first book-length study of intensifiers ever written. The study investigates the syntax and...
Categories: Language & Linguistics, Linguistic Theory