Examining its subject from a generative perspective, this highly
detailed text deals with the syntax of nominal expressions. It
focuses on empirical data taken from the Spanish language, though
the author goes further to draw conclusions of wider theoretical
interest from material culled from other languages too.
The book considers crucial phenomena in the nominal domain, such
as extraction out of nominal phrases and ellipsis in these phrases,
as well as their modification. In doing so it provides the reader
with a unified explanation of a number of phenomena that have not
previously been analyzed under a single basic account. In
particular, Ticio explores how economy notions interact with a
number of functional categories, with the length and type of
movements allowed, and with the existence of three internal domains
within nominal expressions. She uses these observations to inform
her analysis of the structure of arguments and adjuncts in nominal
expressions, and of the potential these elements have for
extraction. To test the empirical adequacy of her analysis, she
employs phenomena such as the properties of attributive adjectives,
partial cliticization and nominal elision in Spanish nominal
phrases.
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