Review article
https://doi.org/10.22210/suvlin.2025.099.06
On motivation, lexicalization and lexicographic descriptions of some Polish and Croatian adverbial intensifiers
Paulina Pycia-Košćak
orcid.org/0000-0002-7886-7566
; Šlesko sveučilište u Katowicama
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* Corresponding author.
Abstract
Intensification is a process that, in addition to the reinforcing function, is connected with expressiveness and subjective attitudes. The paper analyzes adverbial intensifiers that increase the intensity characteristic of Polish and Croatian colloquial languages. We took into account Polish and Croatian intensifiers, which are mutually equivalent, and the analysis is carried out from a synchronic perspective. After the description of the motivation of adverbial intensifiers and their lexicalization, a comparison of the model of lexicographic description of adverbial intensifiers in Polish and Croatian dictionary sources follows. Comparative analysis made it possible to propose systematic and universalsolutions in the lexicographic description of intensifiers.
Keywords
adverbial intensifiers; lexicalization; comparative analysis; Croatian; Polish
Hrčak ID:
334032
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Publication date:
25.7.2025.
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