Well weird, right dodgy, very strange, really cool: Layering and recycling in English intensifiers

Language in Society

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 257-279

  Ito, Rika ^a   Tagliamonte, Sali ^b  

^a ST OLAF COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

British English; Delexicalization; Gender difference; Intensifiers; Really; Very

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038380821     PISSN: 00474045     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0047404503322055     Document Type: Review

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