TY - BOOK AU - Daniel Gutzmann TI - The grammar of expressivity SN - 9780198812135 U1 - REF 425.019 G98 PY - 2019/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - English language Grammar KW - Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Grammar & Punctuation N2 - 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 ER -