1 The grammar of impoliteness

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction
4. 1 The grammar of impoliteness 1
5. From morphemes to periphrastic structures
6. 2 Impolite suffixoids in English slang 29
7. 3 A theoretical and experimental investigation of the morpho-syntax of an anti-honorific prefix in Korean 61
8. 4 Blessings and curses are structurally different: Data from Daghestan 95
9. 5 Che ti venga NP, a conventionalised impoliteness formula for Italian disease curses (14^th–20^th century) 129
10. 6 Wehe ‘woe’ + verb-second conditional clause in German: A conventionalized threat construction? 179
11. 7 ‘What the hell?!’ vs. ‘Wat de hel?!’: Contrasting the intensifying whx construction in English and Afrikaans 215
12. 8 Such an impoliteness: Evidence for the ‘evaluative such construction’ 253
13. 9 Conventionalized impoliteness in English and Polish: The case of ‘you idiot!’ 283
14. 10 A corpus-based exploration of British English impoliteness formulae 307
15. Conclusion
16. 11 What’s in a word? Reflections about impoliteness and future directions 337
17. Index