Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. New insights on intensification and intensifiers 1
4. Part I. The category of intensification
5. Chapter 1. The comparative basis of intensification 15
6. Chapter 2. Intensification and focusing 33
7. Chapter 3. Intensification processes in Italian 55
8. Chapter 4. Noun classification in Kiswahili 79
9. Part II. Strategies of intensification in ancient languages: Hittite, Greek and Latin
10. Chapter 5. Intensification and intensifying modification in Hittite 101
11. Chapter 6. Diminutives in Ancient Greek 127
12. Chapter 7. Nulla sum, nulla sum: Tota, tota occidi 147
13. Part III. Strategies of intensification in modern languages: Italian, German, English
14. Chapter 8. Intensifiers between grammar and pragmatics 173
15. Chapter 9. Stress and tones as intensifying operators in German 193
16. Chapter 10. English exclamative clauses and interrogative degree modification 207
17. Part IV. Contrastive analysis of intensification in Italian and German
18. Chapter 11. A pragmatic view on intensification 231
19. Chapter 12. Intensifying structures of adjectives across German and Italian 251
20. Chapter 13. The coordination of identical conjuncts as a means of strengthening expressions in German and Italian 265
21. Chapter 14. What does reduplication intensify? 289
22. Chapter 15. Intensification strategies in German and Italian written language 305
23. Chapter 16. Ways to intensify 327
24. Chapter 17. Augmentatives in Italian and German 353
25. Chapter 18. Intentional vagueness 371
26. Index 391