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Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- WORKS REFERRED TO BY AUTHORS' NAMES ALONE -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. INTENSIFIERA WITH ADJECTIVES -- 2. SOME RESTRICTIONS ON INTENSIFIERS PRIMARILY WITH ADJECTIVES -- 3. THE INTENSIFICATION OF NOUNS -- 4. THE MAKING OF INTENSIFIERS BY GRAMMATICAL SHIFTS -- 5. LITOTES AND NEGATION -- 6. INTENSIFIERS WITH THE PREPOSITION OF -- 7. PROSODIC INTERFERENCE AND THE INDEFINITE ARTICLE -- 8. DEGREE NOUNS WITH RELATIVELY UNGRAMMATICIZED INTENSIFIERS -- 9. INTENSIFIERA WITH VERBS -- 10. DEGREE VERBS AND ADJECTIVES WITH SO AND HOW -- 11. MUCH WITH VERBS -- 12. DEGREE VERBS WITH OTHER GRAMMATICIZED INTENSIFIERS -- 13. DEGREE VERBS WITH RELATIVELY UNGRAMMATICIZED INTENSIFIERS -- 14. FORMALIZED REDUNDANCY AND SEMANTIC ANALYSIS -- 15. INTENSIFICATION BY STRETCHING -- 16. THE INTENSIFICATION OF NOUNS THAT PREMODIFY -- 17. WHY DEGREE NOUNS BEHAVE LIKE PRONOUNS -- APPENDIX -- POSTSCRIPT -- MAIN INDEX -- WORD INDEX