NDLI: Expressive intensifiers and external degree modification

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Author	Gutzmann, Daniel Turgay, Katharina
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	Varieties of colloquial German exhibit a special class of degree expression, including expressions like sau, voll and total, which we call expressive intensifiers (EIs) and which have received almost no attention in the literature. EIs are distinguished from ordinary degree intensifiers like very by several special syntactic properties. Most importantly, they can appear in what we call the external degree modification construction (EDC), a construction of the form [EI D (A) NP]. Despite preceding the determiner in these constructions, the EI still intensifies the adjective or noun inside the DP. The entire EDC behaves like a DP and, curiously, its interpretation must be indefinite, irrespective of the definite determiner that it involves. External EIs raise at least six questions for their analysis: (i) What is their relation to internal EIs? (ii) What position hosts them and why do they move at all? (iii) Why does the external position shift the interpretation of the determiner? (iv) Why is it that ordinary degree items are excluded from that position? (v) Why are some EIs prevented from appearing adnominally in internal position, but all can be used adnominally in external position? (vi) Why do some constructions block external EIs? After presenting a detailed description of the behavior of EIs both in internal and external position and in adjectival and adnominal use, we develop an analysis of EDCs to answer these questions which is based on the idea that the derivation of an EDC involves head movement to D$^{0}$ where the EI forms a complex quantifier with the determiner in order to express a syntactic expressivity feature.
Starting Page	185
Ending Page	228
Page Count	44
File Format	PDF
ISSN	13834924
Journal	The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics
Volume Number	17
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	15728552
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2015-02-15
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Intensifiers Expressivity Adjectives Degree phrases Gradable nouns German Linguistics (general) Germanic Languages Comparative Linguistics Syntax Theoretical Languages
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Arts and Humanities Linguistics and Language

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