Examples of intensifier

• Perhaps surprisingly, given the association with women, the use of intensifiers is also associated with colloquial usage and nonstandard varieties.

• Do different communities have different "layers" of intensifiers?

• Using this as a baseline, our analysis is restricted to adjectival heads, and of these, only in constructions that could possibly be modified by intensifiers.

• Furthermore, in line with the expected pathways of change for intensifiers, very much appears to have started to lose intensifying force.

• Taken together, the seven articles reflect well the different approaches adopted in current work on intensifiers and will hopefully stimulate further research in the field.

• The intensifier that most commonly licenses taboo terms is so.

• It is an easy task to find the intensifiers themselves, but difficult, if not impossible, to find where they could have occurred but did not.

• Extrapolating from these observations, use of intensifiers with predicate adjectives could be taken as evidence for a later stage in the delexicalization process.

• In the next section, we subject the incoming intensifier really to an analysis that treats both the internal and external factors simultaneously.

• Rather, this use of taboo terms can appear anywhere the appropriate intensifiers can appear.

• In addition, the analysis also includes intensifiers, such as universal and negative pronouns (all, nothing), amplifiers (a lot, forever), and emphatics (extreme/-ly/, total/-ly/).

• We have also discovered an overriding constraint such that intensifiers are preferred with predicative adjectives, and this is true regardless of the intensifier.

• Middle-class speakers used suffixed forms in the adverb classes studied, including intensifiers, twice as frequently as working-class speakers.

• Table 5 shows the distribution of really as intensifier and as modal by these four speakers.

• Those so labeled almost always use the term as an intensifier, not a philosophical label.