RT Dissertation/Thesis
T1 Death-related intensifiers in the history of the English language: grammaticalisation and other proccesses of language change
A1 Blanco Suárez, Zeltia
K1 intensificadores
K1 gramaticalización
K1 subxectivización
K1 cambio lingüístico
AB The experience of death is, anthropologically, of the most genuine concern for all cultures and societies worldwide, since it marks the most extreme limits of human existence. With such an impact on our routines, it should come as no surprise that it can be effectively exploited as a source of intensification in language, perhaps even cross-linguistically.Although some studies have addressed the uses of specific intensifiers from the semantic field of death (cf. Claridge 2011 on dead and Margerie 2011 on to death), a comprehensive diachronic corpus-based study of death-related intensifiers is still missing. This dissertation, therefore, sets out to fill this gap by accounting for the semantic evolution of the intensifiers dead(ly), mortal(ly), and to death, covering from the Middle English period (1100-1500) to Present-day English.
YR 2017
FD 2017
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/16430
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/16430
LA eng
DS Minerva
RD 23 abr 2026