Table of contents
PrefaceVII
Major trends in research on the English NP1
Determination, modification & complementation
Refining and re-defining secondary determiners in relation to primary determiners27
The rivalry between definiteness and specificity: The grammaticalization of definiteness in DP emergence79
Post-head compression in noun phrase referring expressions: Structural change in interactive communication107
From noun to verb: Modeling variation in the English gerund system135
Shell nouns & the X-is construction
Shell nouns as epistemic stance devices in English: A study of four epistemic modal nous and four evidential nouns171
Constructional variation and change in N-is focaliser constructions205
Premodification in X-is constructions: Fact and point235
Binominal constructions311
From an icy hell of a night to a hell of a fine story: The development of the English binominal noun phrase and beyond279
Time-measurement constructions in English: A corpus-based exploration311
Day to day and night after night: Temporal NPN constructions in present day English363
Coordinated phrases as dvandvas: A competition-theoretic perspective395
Index429
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