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"Affixoidhungrig? Skitbra!” Comparing affixoids in German and Swedish

In this article we offer a comparative survey of word-forming elements in German and Swedish known as “affixoids”...

Keywords: affixoid, semi-affix, parent morph, desemanticization, grammaticalization

03/2006 | STUF – Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Akademie Verlag

Intensifiers of adjectives in German

Work on grammaticalization that has bee carried out in the course of the last decades has shown that there are some domains of grammatical structure that are more conservative while others are more innovative...

Keywords: intensifiers, grammaticalization, adverbs, degree adverbs, German

04/2006 | STUF – Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Akademie Verlag

Demonstratives, joint attention, and the emergence of grammar

Drawing on recent work in developmental and comparative psychology, this paper argues that demonstratives function to coordinate the interlocutors' joint focus of attention, which is one of the most basic functions of human communication...

Keywords: demonstratives, joint attention, deixis, pointing, grammaticalization, evolution of grammar

12/2006 | Cognitive Linguistics, Walter de Gruyter

From representational to scopal ‘distancing indirect speech or thought’: A cline of subjectification

‘Distancing indirect speech or thought’ (DIST) is defined as a noncanonical form of speech or thought representation which is characterized by the singleness of deictic center across both component clauses: Contrary to direct, indirect, or free indirect speech/thought, no truly separate consciousness (‘sayer/cognizant’) is represented by the current speaker (‘speaker’), even though the grammar of speech or thought representation is used...

Keywords: reported speech, distancing indirect speech/thought, deixis, scope, subjectification, grammaticalization

09/2004 | Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, Walter de Gruyter

Focused assertion of identity: A typology of intensifiers

Intensifiers such as himself/herself in English, ipse/ipsa in Latin, stesso/stessa in Italian, sam/samá in Russian, or selbst in German are most easily identifiable in terms of their prosodic and semantic properties...

Keywords: agreement, animacy, emphatic reflexive, focus, grammaticalization, inflection, intensifier, reflexive, word class

10/2006 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de Gruyter

The fate of 'redundant′ verbal forms – Double perfect constructions in the languages of Europe

German and other languages of Europe have supercomposed tenses which are the result of a twofold application of the strategy that forms perfects...

Keywords: double perfect, German tense system, redundancy, grammaticalization, tense in spoken language

03/2007 | STUF – Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Akademie Verlag

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