On the Rise and Diffusion of New Intensifiers: "This" and "That" in Some Asian Varieties of English
The intensifiers this and that acquired their intensifying function as a result of a grammaticalization process by means of which deictic demonstratives became degree adverbs with the meaning “to this or that extent, so much, so.” The phenomenon spread in the early nineteenth century as a typical re...
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