Volker Gast

The Grammar of Identity (eBook, ePUB)

Intensifiers and Reflexives in Germanic Languages

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

All major Germanic languages except Yiddish have intensifiers that have developed from the reconstructed Proto-Germanic form *selba-. For example, in English we have "herself," in Icelandic there is "sjalfur "and in Gothic - "silba." This book deals with the question of why intensifiers and reflexives are formally indistinguishable in so many languages of the world. Using evidence from germanic languages, this is a semasiological study on the family of self-forms in Germanic languages.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Januar 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134160891
• Artikelnr.: 38450835

Autorenporträt

Volker Gast

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. The Distribution and Morphology of Head
Adjacent Self 3. Head
Adjacent Intensifiers as Expressions of an Identity Function 4. The Syntax of Head
Distant Intensifiers 5. Combinatorial Properties of Head
Distant Intensifiers 6. The Interpretation of Head
Distant Intensifiers 7. Reflexivity and the Identity Function 8. The Grammar of Reflexivity in Germanic Languages