Intensifiers in English and German

Taylor & Francis

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.\n > 1. Introduction\n1.1 Background 1.2 Three uses of intensifiers 1.3 Outline and objectives 2. The Syntax of Intensifiers - Overview 2.1 The three uses of intensifiers 2.2 Intensifiers as focus particles 2.3 Related expressions 2.4 Previous analyses 2.5 Historical development 3. Adnominal Intensifiers 3.1 Adnominal SELF - overt heads 3.1.1 ANS - the NP-Adjunct 3.1.2 Syntactic restrictions 3.2 Adnominal SELF - covert heads 3.3 ANS in role reversal structures 4. Adverbal1