Dictionary of Russian and English Lexical Intensifiers

Словарь содержит около 10400 русских и 12500 английских усилительных словосочетаний. Состоит из двух частей - прямой и реверсивной. В словарной статье прямой части даны заглавные слова, их лексические усилители и переводные эквиваленты. В реверсивной части словаря материал сгруппирован вокруг слов-усилителей.

The Grammar of Identity: Intensifiers and Reflexives in Germanic LanguagesAll major Germanic languages except Yiddish have intensifiers that have developed from the reconstructed Proto-Germanic form *selba-. For example, in English we have herself, in Icelandic there is sj´alfur and in Gothic - silba.

This book deals with the question of why intensifiers and reflexives are formally indistinguishable in so many languages of the world. Using evidence from germanic languages, this is a semasiological study on the family of self-forms in Germanic languages.

Insa Guzow analyzes the acquisition of intensifiers by children acquiring German or English as their first language. Based on a comparative analysis of intensifiers and related expressions in the two languages, she examines the longitudinal production data of six German-speaking and six English-speaking children with regard to when and in which contexts the intensifiers German selbst/selber and English x-self (myself, yourself, himself, etc.) appear. As intensifiers evoke alternatives to the referent of their focus and relate a central referent to more peripheral alternative referents, they are an important linguistic means to structure the participants of a child's early discourse. By integrating intensifiers into their utterances, children can identify themselves as central. The notion of being included or excluded in a certain state of affairs is relevant for children when interacting with their parents and/or other children.