Intensifiers in English and German

'...a stimulating read...full of carefully contextualized examples...I would recommend it not only to semanticists interested in focus particles and discourse structure, but also - strongly - to syntacticians, who will find here a goldmine of fascinating semantic and distributional material to feed their own reflection on clause structure.' - Anne Zribi-Hertz , ELL 2001

• 1. Introduction 1.1 Background 1.2 Three uses of intensifiers 1.3 Outline and objectives 2. The Syntax of Intensifiers - Overview 2.1 The three uses of intensifiers 2.2 Intensifiers as focus particles 2.3 Related expressions 2.4 Previous analyses 2.5 Historical development 3. Adnominal Intensifiers 3.1 Adnominal SELF - overt heads 3.1.1 ANS - the NP-Adjunct 3.1.2 Syntactic restrictions 3.2 Adnominal SELF - covert heads 3.3 ANS in role reversal structures 4. Adverbal intensifiers 4.1 AVS - The VP-Adjunct 4.2 AVS as an adverb 4.3 Syntactic restrictions 4.3.1 Passivisation and passives 4.3.2 Topicalisation 4.3.3 Scope bearing elements 4.3.4 Inclusive versus exclusive AVS 5. The Meaning of Intensifiers - Overview 5.1 Three approaches to intensifiers 5.2 The three uses of intensifiers 6. Adnominal Intensifiers 6.1 Scalar and non-scalar approaches 6.2 Possible instantiations of centre and periphery 6.3 Unique identifiability 6.4 ANS in role reversal structures 7. Adverbal Inclusive Intensifiers 7.1 Adverbal inclusive versus adnominal SELF 7.2 Repeatability and transferability 7.3 Contextual conditions 7.4 Comparison: inclusive AVS versus also 7.5 Inclusive AVS as ANS plus also 7.6 Scalar analyses 7.7 Presupposition: negative proposition 7.8 Central representative theory 8. Adverbal exclusive intensifiers 8.1 Basic properties 8.2 Responsibility, benefit and suffering 8.3 Agentivity 8.4 Centrality in situation 9. Summary