Nominal Determination -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Synchrony - and its implications for diachrony -- Discourse bindingDP and pronouns in German, Dutch, and English -- Gender, number, and indefi nite articles: About the 'typological inconsistency' of Italian -- Covert patterns of definiteness/indefiniteness and aspectuality in Old Icelandic, Gothic, and Old High German -- The definite article in Indo-European: Emergence of a new grammatical category? -- 'No' changes: On the history of German indefinite determiners in the scopeof negation -- 2. Synchrony - ontological and typological characteristics -- The functional range of bare singular count nouns in English -- The definite article in non-specific direct object noun phrases: Comparing French and Italian -- Early functions of definite determiners and DPs in German first language acquisition -- 3. Diachrony - universally unifi ed characteristics? -- The discourse-functional crystallizationof the historically original demonstrative -- Determinerless noun phrases in Old Romance passives -- On the structure and development of nominal phrases in Norwegian -- The emergence of DP from a perspective of ontogeny and phylogeny: Correlation between DP, TP and aspect in Old English and first language acquisition -- Demonstratives and possessives: From Old English to present-day English -- Author and subject index -- The series Studies in Language Companion Series.