Corpus Evidence of Language Change — The Case of the Intensifier

Partington, Alan

doi:10.1075/z.64.12par

In:Text and Technology: In honour of John Sinclair
Edited by Mona Baker, Gill Francis and Elena Tognini-Bonelli
[Not in series 64] 1993
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Corpus Evidence of Language Change — The Case of the Intensifier

Alan Partington

Published online: 1 June 1993

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Jiuding, Quan & Anastassia Zabrodskaja

2024. Bilingual translations of intensifiers in Dong-A Ilbo’s news about China: A corpus-based discourse analysis approach. PLOS ONE 19:2 ► pp. e0292603 ff.

Kunkel, Scott

2024. Longitudinal change in the adjective intensifier system of Hexagonal French. Journal of French Language Studies 34:3 ► pp. 398 ff.

Kamber, Julie & Richard Huyghe

2023. Concurrence morphologique et préfixation de haut degré : le cas de méga -, giga - et hypra -. Travaux de linguistique n° 86:1 ► pp. 59 ff.

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2023. Practically impossible: The development of an English approximator. Studia Neophilologica 95:1 ► pp. 63 ff.

Szabó, Martina Katalin, Veronika Vincze & Károly Bibok

2023. “Thank you for the terrific party!” – An analysis of Hungarian negative emotive words. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 19:3 ► pp. 451 ff.

Brône, Geert & Steven Schoonjans

2022. „So was von spannend“. Zeitschrift für germanistische Linguistik 50:3 ► pp. 499 ff.

Funke, Nina & Tobias Bernaisch

2022. Intensifying and downtoning in South Asian Englishes. English World-Wide. A Journal of Varieties of English 43:1 ► pp. 33 ff.

Pan, Yun

2022. Intensification for discursive evaluation: a corpus-pragmatic view. Text & Talk 42:3 ► pp. 391 ff.

Sada Ali Hamid

2022. Problems and Diffculties Encountered by EFL University Students in Using Adjective Intensifiers. مجلة آداب الفراهيدي 14:49 ► pp. 560 ff.

Almaged, Sadiq

2021. THE DISCURSIVE FORMULATION OF BREXIT: DECISION, OPPORTUNITY AND NEEDFUL AGREEMENT. Discourse and Interaction 14:1 ► pp. 5 ff.

Hiltunen, Turo

2021. Intensification in Eighteenth Century Medical Writing. Journal of English Linguistics 49:1 ► pp. 90 ff.

McGloin, Naomi H. & Moeko Watanabe

2021. Creation of an intensifier in progress: a study of the Japanese adverbhutuuni. Journal of Japanese Linguistics 37:1 ► pp. 69 ff.

Tyler, Tom

2021. The Exception and the Norm: Dimensions of Anthropocentrism. In The Palgrave Handbook of Animals and Literature [Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature, ], ► pp. 15 ff.

Unuabonah, Foluke Olayinka, Adebola Adebileje & Rotimi Olanrele Oladipupo

2021. Intensifier Usage in Nigerian English: A Corpus-Based Approach. Corpus Pragmatics 5:3 ► pp. 335 ff.

Aijmer, Karin

2020. That’s absolutely fine. In Corpora and the changing society [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 96], ► pp. 143 ff.

Blanco-Suárez, Zeltia

2020. Two sides of the same coin?. In Corpora and the changing society [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 96], ► pp. 169 ff.

Blanco-Suárez, Zeltia

2020. Mortal hurryandmortal fine: on the rise of intensifyingmortal. Studia Neophilologica 92:3 ► pp. 271 ff.

Gyselinck, Emmeline

2020. (Re)shaping the constructional network. In Nodes and networks in Diachronic Construction Grammar [Constructional Approaches to Language, 27], ► pp. 107 ff.

Schweinberger, Martin

2020. Analyzing change in the American English amplifier system in the fiction genre. In Corpora and the changing society [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 96], ► pp. 223 ff.

Schweinberger, Martin

2020. A corpus-based analysis of differences in the use ofveryfor adjective amplification among native speakers and learners of English. International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 6:2 ► pp. 163 ff.

Schweinberger, Martin

2020. How Learner Corpus Research can inform language learning and teaching. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 43:2 ► pp. 196 ff.

Schweinberger, Martin

2021. Ongoing change in the Australian English amplifier system. Australian Journal of Linguistics 41:2 ► pp. 166 ff.

Schweinberger, Martin

2021. On the waning of forms – A corpus-based analysis of decline and loss in adjective amplification. In Lost in Change [Studies in Language Companion Series, 218], ► pp. 235 ff.

Stratton, James M.

2020. Adjective Intensifiers in German. Journal of Germanic Linguistics 32:2 ► pp. 183 ff.

Stratton, James M.

2022. Old English intensifiers. Journal of Historical Linguistics 12:1 ► pp. 31 ff.

Tagliamonte, Sali A. & Katharina Pabst

2020. ACoolComparison: Adjectives of Positive Evaluation in Toronto, Canada and York, England. Journal of English Linguistics 48:1 ► pp. 3 ff.

Hilte, Lisa, Reinhild Vandekerckhove & Walter Daelemans

2019. Expressive markers in online teenage talk. Nederlandse Taalkunde 23:3 ► pp. 293 ff.

Wagner, Susanne

2019. Whyvery goodin India might bepretty goodin North America. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 24:4 ► pp. 445 ff.

Stratton, James

2018. The Use of the Adjective Intensifierwellin British English: A Case Study ofThe Inbetweeners. English Studies 99:8 ► pp. 793 ff.

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2018. Premodification in evaluative of-binominal noun phrases. In Recent developments in Functional Discourse Grammar [Studies in Language Companion Series, 205], ► pp. 169 ff.

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2022. From an icy hell of a night to a hell of a fine story . In English Noun Phrases from a Functional-Cognitive Perspective [Studies in Language Companion Series, 221], ► pp. 279 ff.

AMADOR‐MORENO, CAROLINA P. & ANA MARÍA TERRAZAS‐CALERO

2017. Encapsulating Irish English in literature. World Englishes 36:2 ► pp. 254 ff.

Méndez-Naya, Belén

2017. Co-occurrence and iteration of intensifiers in Early English. English Text Construction 10:2 ► pp. 249 ff.

Méndez-Naya, Belén

2019. Ofright heirs, right idiotsandbad data. The diachrony of the intensifying adjectiveright. Studia Neophilologica 91:3 ► pp. 273 ff.

Stange, Ulrike

2017. “You’re So Not Going to Believe This”:. American Speech 92:4 ► pp. 487 ff.

Stange, Ulrike

2020. “Holding Grudges Is So Last Century”: The Use of GenX So as a Modifier of Noun Phrases. Journal of English Linguistics 48:2 ► pp. 107 ff.

Stange, Ulrike

2021. “He should so be in jail”: An Empirical Study on Preverbal So in American English. Journal of English Linguistics 49:1 ► pp. 114 ff.

Stange, Ulrike

2022. ‘I'm so ditching school to babysit.’. English Today 38:1 ► pp. 2 ff.

Stange, Ulrike

2023. So Grown Stale? On Intensifying and Emphasizing Uses of Preverbalsoin Present-Day American English. American Speech: A Quarterly of Linguistic Usage 98:3 ► pp. 235 ff.

Bordet, Lucile

2016. References. Lexis :10

Bordet, Lucile

2016. From vogue words to lexicalized intensifying words: the renewal and recycling of intensifiers in English. A case-study of very. Lexis :10

Childs, Claire

2016. Canny good, orquite canny?. English World-Wide. A Journal of Varieties of English 37:3 ► pp. 238 ff.

Gyselinck, Emmeline & Timothy Colleman

2016. Tracking shifts in the literal versus the intensifying fake reflexive resultative construction. Belgian Journal of Linguistics 30 ► pp. 55 ff.

D'Arcy, Alexandra

2015. Stability, stasis and change. Diachronica 32:4 ► pp. 449 ff.

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2014. Intensifiers in Persian Discourse: Apology and Compliment Speech Acts in Focus. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 98 ► pp. 542 ff.

González-Díaz, Victorina

2014. ‘I quite detest the man’: Degree adverbs, female language and Jane Austen. Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 23:4 ► pp. 310 ff.

Núñez Pertejo, Paloma & Ignacio M. Palacios Martínez

2014. That’s absolutely crap, totally rubbish. Functions of Language 21:2 ► pp. 210 ff.

Fohlin, Maria

2009. L'adverbe de manière suffixé et la modification de l'adjectif en français et en suédois. Langages n° 175:3 ► pp. 33 ff.

TAGLIAMONTE, SALI A.

2008. So different and pretty cool! Recycling intensifiers in Toronto, Canada. English Language and Linguistics 12:2 ► pp. 361 ff.

Tagliamonte, Sali A.

2016. So sick or so cool? The language of youth on the internet. Language in Society 45:1 ► pp. 1 ff.

Lalor, Therese & Johanna Rendle-Short

2007. ‘That's So Gay’: A Contemporary Use ofGayin Australian English. Australian Journal of Linguistics 27:2 ► pp. 147 ff.

Tao, Hongyin

2007. A Corpus-Based Investigation of Absolutely and Related Phenomena in Spoken American English. Journal of English Linguistics 35:1 ► pp. 5 ff.

OHASHI, HIROSHI

2006. THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ENGLISH INTENSIFIER PHRASE. ENGLISH LINGUISTICS 23:2 ► pp. 403 ff.

TAGLIAMONTE, SALI & CHRIS ROBERTS

2005. SO WEIRD; SO COOL; SO INNOVATIVE: THE USE OF INTENSIFIERS IN THE TELEVISION SERIESFRIENDS. American Speech 80:3 ► pp. 280 ff.

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2001. References. In Where Lexicon and Syntax meet , ► pp. 303 ff.

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2021. The Sociopragmatics of Stance [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 329],

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