Katja PolittFeb 26
Today’s programme in AG3 is 🔥 – We are starting with Marius Bartsch (U Bielefeld), who is presenting a corpus study of nominal augmentatives like Höllen- as in Höllengelächter (lit. ‘hell laughter’, tremendous laughter) in German. Are these creative or lexicalized?
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Next up is Nina Böbel (HHU Düsseldorf), presenting a CxG- and Frame-based view on intensification. Is this a constructional family? Her case study is on NP_brutal, krank_ADJ or Mords-N. Mordsinteressant!

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What has become clear is that the concept of intensification is very tricky to differentiate from e.g. expressivity (lots of work on that), but also from emphasis and quantification - comes up again and again in regard to many different case studies!

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Third talk today, Jakob Maché (U Lisboa) & Vesela Simeonova (U Graz) getting rude: Their talk is on intensifying insults with expressive uses of pronouns such as in *Du Trottel du! *– rude much? Comes with a content warning but takes a descriptive view 😉
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We recharged with some coffee and are now ready for the next awesome talk: Sören Stumpf (LMU Munich) & Fabio Mollica (U Milano) analyze textual patterns of intensification from a CxG-perspective in old, older, Trier.
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We move from non-canonical patterns of adjective intensification to intensification of physical symptoms in doctor-patient communication. Anna Kutscher, Adian Mussa, Mariya Hristova & Ralf Vogel (U Bielefeld) tell us about what makes an Anfall, an Ausbruck or an Attacke.
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Our last exciting talk before the lunch break goes back to the morphological domain: Katrin Hein-Antonioli (IDS Mannheim) examines augmentative word formation patterns, e.g. Bilderbuchfußballergattinnen (the compounding <3) or Vorzegige-Softies as an intensification strategy.
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Now we're back for the one and only @stefanhartmann presenting rese-arch on arch- from a contrastive perspective (Dutch, German, English): "The archbishop’s archevil archenemy: Contrastive perspectives on the emergence of an intensifying prefix" - with extra cat pictures!

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@stefanhartmann Today’s programme is short because of the members’ assembly, so we’re already at the last talk for today ☹
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This special slot (no CxG-pun intended) goes to Daniela Elsner (PH Vorarlberg) on German [N+weise]-derivations as intensification, as in tonnenweise – This will take us to yet another closely related concept, comparison, and its relations with intensification.

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