Death-related Intensifiers in the History of English
Zeltia Blanco-Suárez
Broschiertes Buch

Death-related Intensifiers in the History of English

Grammaticalisation and Related Phenomena

Herausgegeben: Davis, Graeme; Byrne, Damian
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An all-important question for humans, death is unsurprisingly used as a source of intensification in language, perhaps even cross-linguistically. This book explores the use of death for intensification purposes in English and aims to shed light on how certain forms from this semantic field came to be used with an intensifying function over time, specifically dead(ly), mortal(ly) and to death. The author provides a full account of the evolution of these intensifiers from their origins up to present-day English from the perspective of grammaticalisation and other concomitant phenomena. To this e...