'Totally new' and 'pretty awesome'

• Susanne Wagner ^[1]
  1. [1] Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz

     Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz

     Kreisfreie Stadt Mainz, Alemania

     
• Localización: Lingua: International review of general linguistics, ISSN 0024-3841, Nº 200, 2017, págs. 63-83
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Previous work on adjectival intensification (e.g. very good, so glad, really great) has mostly focussed on the adverbs in question, showing that different (native) varieties of English display distinctive preferences concerning intensifier choice. However, little is known so far about the role that intensifier-adjective units (bigrams) play. The present paper offers a first contribution to fill this research gap by focussing on a data-driven approach to (mostly) high-frequency bigrams and their collocational behaviour in the Corpus of Global Web-based English (GloWbE). Asymmetric and symmetric measures are employed to establish attraction and repulsion between adverb and adjective, while highlighting regional similarities and differences