Intensifying compounds in the Diasystem of Belgian French-speaking learners of Dutch and English

Languages vary significantly in their preferences for morphological and syntactic constructions (among others, Van Goethem 2009; Schlücker 2019). The present study focuses on adjectival intensification: [[X]INT [Y]ADJ]ADJ/AP ↔ ‘very Y’ (e.g. very proud). The diversity of constructions (such as degree adverbs, intensifying prefixes, compounds, etc.) and the language-specific preferences for particular types of intensification (Hoeksema 2011, 2012; Rainer 2015) may complicate the acquisition of intensifying constructions for second language learners (Lorenz 1999). Specifically intensifying adjec... Mehr ...