Juan Lorente-Sánchez
Biographic Data
| ID | 9312176 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Juan Lorente-Sánchez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Juan |
| FAMILY NAME | Lorente-Sánchez |
| SIGNATURE | LORENTE-SÁNCHEZ J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad de Málaga |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5377-8463 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 1 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
On the Rise and Diffusion of New Intensifiers
The intensifiers this and that acquired their intensifying function as a result of a grammaticalization process by means of which deictic demonstratives became degree adverbs with the meaning “to this or that extent, so much, so.” The phenomenon spread in the early nineteenth century as a typical resource of spoken English, and since then these intensifiers have found a niche in the written domain by imposing a scalar construal on adjectives for …
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On the Rise and Diffusion of New Intensifiers
The intensifiers this and that acquired their intensifying function as a result of a grammaticalization process by means of which deictic demonstratives became degree adverbs with the meaning “to this or that extent, so much, so.” The phenomenon spread in the early nineteenth century as a typical resource of spoken English, and since then these intensifiers have found a niche in the written domain by imposing a scalar construal on adjectives for …
Epistemology (1 work) · Grammaticalization (1 work) · History (1 work) · Lexicography and Language Studies (1 work) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (1 work) · Linguistics (1 work) · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity (1 work) · Phenomenon (1 work) · Philosophy (1 work)