The Grammar of Identity: Intensifiers and Reflexives in Germanic Languages

ISBN-13: 9781138868311 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 258 str.

Volker Gast

Opis

This original treatment of an extremely complex and interesting subject matter within Germanic languages and theoretical linguistics, investigates why intensifiers and reflexives are formally indistinguishable in so many languages around the world.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Volker Gast