The picture from early English medical writing: Intensifiers in competition

Méndez-Naya, Belén; Pahta, Päivi

doi:10.1075/z.160.08men

In:Early Modern English Medical Texts: Corpus description and studies
Edited by Irma Taavitsainen and Päivi Pahta
[Not in series 160] 2010
► pp. 191–214

Intensifiers in competition

The picture from early English medical writing

Belén Méndez-Naya | University of Santiago de Compostela

Päivi Pahta | University of Tampere

Published online: 22 December 2010

https://doi.org/10.1075/z.160.08men

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