ABSTRACT
In the following, a distinction will be drawn between those occurrences of adnominal intensifiers that are in association with an overt head NP and those that seem to lack one. This distinction is only relevant for English. German intensifiers always interact with an overt head. As long as there is a visible head, ANS can straightforwardly be analysed as an adjunction to it and may therefore be regarded as an apposition in the widest sense of the word. There are hardly any problems concerning the syntactic analysis of this variety of ANS. However, as mentioned in section 2.4, certain occurrences of E. x-self resemble intensifiers although there is no overt head NP present in these cases. Here, a number of options arise. First, the existence of headless ANS may be denied altogether and the relevant occurrences of x-self may simply be viewed as (long-distance bound) reflexive anaphors. This approach has been extensively investigated and has yielded many interesting results (cf. Zribi-Hertz 1989 for a good summary).
