The object of the present work are intensifiers, i.e. degree adjectives and degree adverbs which express a high level of a reference word’s quality. The research focusses on the development of the lexemes which originally ...

The central topic of this thesis is the meaning and use of impersonally interpreted personal pronouns. In particular, I focus on the impersonal use of first and second person singular pronouns, in which these expressions ...

In this dissertation, a syntax-semantics interface for Neo-Davidsonian Event Semantics is developed, which provides a compositional mechanism free of variables and lambda abstraction and ...