The grammar of expressivity /
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.
- 1 online resource (xx, 287 pages) : illustrations 2918 pages;
This volume provides a detailed account of the syntax of expressive language. Based on case studies of expressive adjectives, intensifiers, and vocatives, it offers a new analysis of expressivity that bridges the gap between semantic and syntactic accounts, and shows that expressivity is a syntactic feature and not a purely semantic phenomenon
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English language Grammar Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Grammar & Punctuation