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The grammar of identity : intensifiers and reflexives in Germanic languages / Volker Gast.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gast, Volker.
- Series:
- Routledge studies in Germanic linguistics ; 11.
- Routledge studies in Germanic linguistics ; 11
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Germanic languages--Pronoun.
- Germanic languages.
- Germanic languages--Reflexives.
- Germanic languages--Intensification.
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Reflexives.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Intensification.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- The distribution and morphology of head-adjacent SELF
- Head-adjacent intensifiers as expressions of an identity function
- The syntax of head-distant intensifiers
- Combinatorial properties of head-distant intensifiers
- The interpretation of head-distant intensifiers
- Reflexivity and the identity function
- The grammar of reflexivity in Germanic languages.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [233]-245) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0415394112
- OCLC:
- 65400522
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