Sigi Vandewinkel

List of John Benjamins publications in which Sigi Vandewinkel is involved.

Articles

Vandewinkel, Sigi 2010 Strengthening uses of pure/puur in English and Dutch English Text Construction 3:1, pp. 44–73 | Article

In both English and Dutch, the adjective “pure/puur” has developed subjectified meanings, denoting speaker involvement rather than lexical unmixedness, as in the reinforcing “pure madness/pure waanzin”. “Pure/puur” can also express focusing discourse-structuring functions (“That’s pure luck/Da’s… read more

Vandewinkel, Sigi and Kristin Davidse 2008 The interlocking paths of development to emphasizer adjective pure Journal of Historical Pragmatics 9:2, pp. 255–287 | Article

This study deals with the emphasizing use of adjective pure, as in pure heaven, pure unbridled hell, which heightens the semantic specifications of the following nominal description. On the basis of close analysis of synchronic and diachronic data, it is argued that the peculiarities of Present-day… read more