Trends in Linguistics - Studies and Monographs 267 -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- Table of Figures -- Introduction -- Aim 1: Description of identifying and noun-intensifying slots in the NP -- Aim 2: A synchronically and diachronically dynamic model of the English NP -- Aim 3: Towards a more encompassing and more detailed understanding of (inter)subjectification processes and their directionality in the English NP -- Part I - Synchrony -- Chapter 1 - A functional-cognitive model of the English NP -- 1.1. The functional make-up of the English NP -- 1.1.1. Halliday's structural-functional account -- 1.1.2. Bache's functional zone model -- 1.1.3. Langacker's cognitive-functional account -- 1.1.4. A functional-cognitive model of the English NP -- 1.2. Categorization -- 1.2.1. The head of the NP -- 1.2.2. Subcategorization -- 1.3. Modification -- 1.3.1. Descriptive modification -- 1.3.1.1. Objective and subjective descriptive modifiers -- 1.3.1.2. Bounded, unbounded and extreme descriptive modifiers -- 1.3.2. Degree modification -- 1.3.2.1. Adjective-intensification -- 1.3.2.2. Noun-intensification -- 1.3.2.3. Structural-semantic types of degree modification -- 1.3.2.4. Degree modification and subjectivity -- 1.4. Determination -- 1.4.1. Primary determination -- 1.4.2. Secondary determination -- Chapter 2 - The English NP: Structure, order and the role of (inter)subjectivity -- 2.1. The English NP: A mere modifier-head structure? -- 2.2. A semantic, linear subjective-objective model? -- 2.2.1. Langackerian subjectivity -- 2.2.2. Intersubjectivity in Cognitive Grammar -- 2.2.3. Traugottian subjectivity and beyond -- 2.2.4. Traugottian intersubjectivity and beyond -- 2.2.5. Textual meanings and (inter)subjectivity -- 2.2.6. Subjectivity and intersubjectivity: Disentangling the web.

2.2.7. Challenging the linear subjective-objective model -- 2.3. A prosodic, field-like model -- Part II - Diachrony -- Chapter 3 - (Inter)subjectification and grammaticalization: Pathways of change in the English NP -- 3.1. Subjectification and intersubjectification -- 3.2. Grammaticalization -- 3.2.1. Onset contexts of grammaticalization -- 3.2.1.1. Ambiguity -- 3.2.1.2. Specialized contexts: Dialogicity and collocation -- 3.3. The directionality of (inter)subjectification and grammaticalization -- 3.4. (Inter)subjectification and grammaticalization in the English NP -- 3.4.1. From description to secondary determination -- 3.4.2. Pathways to noun-intensification -- 3.4.2.1. Pathway 1: From description to noun-intensification -- 3.4.2.2. Pathway 2: From identification to noun-intensification -- 3.4.3. Adamson's (2000) leftward and rightward movement hypothesis -- 3.5. Conclusions -- Part III - The case studies -- Chapter 4 - Data and methods -- 4.1. Selection of the data -- 4.2. Corpora -- 4.2.1. Old English -- 4.2.2. Middle English -- 4.2.3. Modern English -- 4.2.4. Present Day English -- 4.3. Methodology -- Chapter 5 - The completeness adjectives -- 5.1. Complete -- 5.1.1. Descriptive modifier uses of complete -- 5.1.1.1. Bounded descriptive modifier uses of complete -- 5.1.1.2. Descriptive modifier uses of complete, vague between bounded and unbounded construal -- 5.1.2. Identifying uses of complete -- 5.1.3. Noun-intensifying uses of complete -- 5.1.3.1. Closed scale noun-intensifying uses -- 5.1.3.2. Noun-intensifying uses hovering between an open scale and a closed scale reading -- 5.1.4. Adjective-intensifying uses of complete -- 5.1.5. From description to identification and noun-intensification -- 5.2. Total -- 5.2.1. Bounded descriptive modifier uses of total -- 5.2.2. Identifying uses of total -- 5.2.3. Noun-intensifying uses of total.

5.2.4. Adjective-intensifying uses of total -- 5.2.5. Classifying uses of total -- 5.2.6. From description to identification and noun-intensification -- 5.3. Whole -- 5.3.1. Descriptive modifier uses of whole -- 5.3.1.1. Bounded descriptive modifier uses of whole -- 5.3.1.2. Bounded/unbounded descriptive modifier uses of whole -- 5.3.2. Identifying uses of whole -- 5.3.3. Noun-intensifying uses of whole -- 5.3.3.1. Closed scale noun-intensifying uses -- 5.3.3.2. Open scale noun-intensifying uses -- 5.3.4. Adjective-intensifying uses of whole -- 5.3.5. From description to identification to noun-intensification -- 5.4. Conclusions -- Chapter 6 - The specificity adjectives -- 6.1. Unbounded descriptive modifier uses of particular and specific -- 6.1.1. Objective descriptive modifier uses -- 6.1.2. Subjective descriptive modifier uses -- 6.2. Identifying uses of particular and specific -- 6.2.1. Linking secondary determiner uses -- 6.2.2. Individuating secondary determiner uses -- 6.2.3. Focusing secondary determiner uses -- 6.2.4. The development of the secondary determiner uses -- 6.3. Noun-intensifying uses of particular -- 6.3.1. The development of noun-intensifying particular -- 6.3.1.1. The emphatic linking construction -- 6.3.1.2. The negative quantifying construction -- 6.3.2. Collocational evidence for the shift from identification tonoun-intensification -- 6.4. Classifying uses of specific -- 6.5. From description to identification (to noun-intensification) -- Chapter 7 - Such, zulk and what -- 7.1. Identifying such -- 7.1.1. Type-phoricity -- 7.1.2. Generalized instantiation -- 7.1.3. Definiteness and indefiniteness in conflict -- 7.2. Noun-intensifying such -- 7.2.1. Semantic-pragmatic types of noun-intensification expressed by such -- 7.2.2. Collocational behaviour of noun-intensifying such.

7.3. The diachronic relation between identifying and noun-intensifying such -- 7.4. A contrastive study of English such and Dutch zulk -- 7.4.1. Identifying zulk -- 7.4.2. Noun-intensifying zulk -- 7.4.3. From identification to noun-intensification ... and back -- 7.5. A comparative study of English such and what -- 7.5.1. Identifying what: an interrogative primary determiner -- 7.5.2. Noun-intensifying what -- 7.5.2.1. Semantic-pragmatic types of noun-intensification -- 7.5.2.2. Collocational behaviour -- 7.5.2.3. Syntactic behaviour -- 7.5.3. Identification and noun-intensification: a fuzzy boundary -- 7.5.4. Such and what: a synchronic comparison -- 7.6. Conclusions -- Chapter 8 - Old and little: subjective compounds -- 8.1. Subjective compounds with old -- 8.1.1. General characterization -- 8.1.2. The development of subjective compounds with old -- 8.2. Subjective compounds with little -- 8.2.1. General characterization -- 8.2.2. The development of subjective compounds with little -- 8.3. Objective compounds with old and little -- 8.4. Subjective compounds and their repercussions for subjectivity and subjectification in the NP -- Summary - Towards a reconciliation of synchrony and diachrony -- References -- Subject index.