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In:Exploring Intensification: Synchronic, diachronic and cross-linguistic perspectives
Edited by Maria Napoli and Miriam Ravetto
[Studies in Language Companion Series 189] 2017
► pp. 305–326

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Chapter 15
Intensification strategies in German and Italian written language

The case of prefissi intensivi or Fremdpräfixe. A corpus-based study

 | Università di Milano
Published online: 30 September 2017
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Abstract
The aim of this study is to investigate a group of six Fremdpräfixe or prefissi intensivi within the context of intensification and to observe both how they work and are perceived by native Italian and German speakers. This work is structured in two parts: the first part is made up of a structured questionnaire to investigate how such prefixes are considered and evaluated from speakers of both languages with the aim of creating an intensity scale. The second part investigates the combinability of the foreign prefixes with specific stems and their presence in a corpus of written language: COSMASII Korpus (IDS Mannheim) for German and CORIS/CODIS Corpus (University of Bologna) for Italian.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Intensification: General remarks
    • 2.1Prefixation in Italian
    • 2.2Prefixation in German
  • 3.The perception of foreign prefixes by Italian and German speakers: A survey
  • 4.The use of foreign prefixes in written language: A corpus-based analysis
  • 5.Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
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