Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Major trends in research on the English NP 1
5. Determination, modification & complementation
6. Refining and re-defining secondary determiners in relation to primary determiners 27
7. The rivalry between definiteness and specificity 79
8. Post-head compression in noun phrase referring expressions 107
9. From noun to verb 135
10. Shell nouns & the X-is construction
11. Shell nouns as epistemic stance devices in English 171
12. Constructional variation and change in N-is focaliser constructions 205
13. Premodification in X-is constructions 235
14. Binominal constructions
15. From an icy hell of a night to a hell of a fine story 279
16. Time-measurement constructions in English 311
17. Day to day and night after night 363
18. Coordinated phrases as dvandvas 395
19. Index 429