The Grammar of Identity: Intensifiers and Reflexives in Germanic Languages

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ISBN: 9780415394116 | 0415394112
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Copyright: 9/15/2006

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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.

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List of figures

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations and glosses

xiii

1 Introduction

(21)

1.1 SELF-forms in Germanic languages

(2)

1.2 The meaning of SELF

(3)

1.3 Three use types of intensifiers

(2)

1.4 The structure of the book

(1)

1.5 Previous analyses: an overview

(13)

2 The distribution and morphology of head-adjacent SELF

(14)

2.1 Syntax and inflection of head-adjacent SELF

(8)

2.2 Combinatorial properties of head-adjacent SELF in English

(6)

3 Head-adjacent intensifiers as expressions of an identity function

(30)

3.1 Intensifiers versus free focus and topic constructions

(4)

3.2 The interpretation of head-adjacent SELF

(4)

3.3 Focus suppositions and contrast: identity vs. alterity

(2)

3.4 Deriving the various readings of head-adjacent intensifiers

(12)

3.5 Previous analyses of head-adjacent intensifiers

(7)

3.6 Summary

(1)

4 The syntax of head-distant intensifiers

(33)

4.1 The distribution of head-distant SELF in German

(12)

4.2 The distribution of head-distant SELF in Swedish

(3)

4.3 The distribution of head-distant SELF in English

(3)

4.4 Towards a derivational analysis of head-distant intensifiers

(13)

4.5 Summary

(2)

5 Combinatorial properties of head-distant intensifiers

(18)

5.1 Exclusive head-distant SELF

(13)

5.2 Inclusive head-distant SELF

112

(4)

5.3 Summary

116

(1)

6 The interpretation of head-distant intensifiers

117

(37)

6.1 The interpretation of exclusive SELF

117

(4)

6.2 From syntax to semantics

121

(7)

6.3 The syntax and semantics of exclusive SELF

128

(5)

6.4 The interpretation of inclusive SELF

133

(4)

6.5 Deriving the function of inclusive SELF

137

(4)

6.6 Previous analyses of head-distant intensifiers

141

(12)

6.7 Summary

153

(1)

7 Reflexivity and the identity function

154

(43)

7.1 Typologies of reflexive markers

155

(8)

7.2 The distribution of anaphors and pronominals

163

(8)

7.3 SELF: identity predicate or identity function?

171

(7)

7.4 Binding and conversational inferencing

178

(1)

7.5 Reflexivity and Optimality Theory

179

(2)

7.6 Kiparsky's reflexivity framework

181

(5)

7.7 Reflexive-marking and the identity function

186

(9)

7.8 Summary

195

(2)

8 The grammar of reflexivity in Germanic languages

197

(23)

8.1 Reflexivity in Scandinavian languages

198

(5)

8.2 Reflexivity in Continental West Germanic and Afrikaans

203

(4)

8.3 English self-forms as markers of reflexivity

207

(11)

8.4 Summary

218

(2)

Notes

220

(11)

Sources

231

(2)

References

233

(13)

Indices

246

(1)

Author index

246

(4)

Language index

250

(1)

Subject index

251

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The Grammar of Identity: Intensifiers and Reflexives in Germanic Languages

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