Miriam Ravetto

List of John Benjamins publications in which Miriam Ravetto is involved.

Title

Exploring Intensification: Synchronic, diachronic and cross-linguistic perspectives

Edited by Maria Napoli and Miriam Ravetto

This book is the first collective volume specifically devoted to the multifaceted phenomenon of intensification, which has been traditionally regarded as related to the expression of degree, scaling a quality downwards or upwards. In spite of the large amount of studies on intensifiers, there is… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 189] 2017. vii, 394 pp.

Articles

Napoli, Maria and Miriam Ravetto 2017 Chapter 16. Ways to intensify: Types of intensified meanings in Italian and German Exploring Intensification: Synchronic, diachronic and cross-linguistic perspectives, Napoli, Maria and Miriam Ravetto (eds.), pp. 327–352 | Chapter

Intensification has traditionally been regarded as a category that is closely related to the concept of degree, i.e., to gradability (since Bolinger 1972). However, as has been shown by, among others, Paradis (2001, 2008), intensifiers are used not only with gradable bases (as adjectives typically… read more

Napoli, Maria and Miriam Ravetto 2017 New insights on intensification and intensifiers Exploring Intensification: Synchronic, diachronic and cross-linguistic perspectives, Napoli, Maria and Miriam Ravetto (eds.), pp. 1–12 | Chapter