Cross-linguistic perspectives on intensification in speech: A comparison of L1 French and L2 English and Dutch

Following the framework of contrastive linguistics (especially Gast 2012), intensification of adjectives is taken as a tertium comparationis that allows a function-based approach of how different languages hypothetically use different linguistic forms to express the same ontological category. Using contrastive analysis to “describe[s] one language from the perspective of another†(König 2012: 22), we will study how intensification of adjectives is used and formally realised in the trilingual output of native French speakers in spoken French, non-native English and non-native Dutch. Learner... Mehr ...