Overview
- This book considers crucial phenomena in the nominal domain, such as extraction out of nominal phrases, ellipsis in nominal phrases and modification of nominal phrases, to provide a single explanation for these phenomena
- Provides a detailed empirical description of the properties of Spanish nominal expressions, disseminating previous studies findings and discussing some previously unobserved data
- The analysis pursued in this book makes use of current research proposals and contributes to the general discussion on linguistic theory by providing some additional empirical evidence for questions such as the type of structures and movements allowed in linguistic theory
Part of the book series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (SNLT, volume 79)
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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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Book Title: Locality Domains in the Spanish Determiner Phrase
Authors: M. Emma Ticio
Series Title: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3398-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-3397-0Published: 22 December 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3132-5Published: 14 March 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-3398-7Published: 03 December 2009
Series ISSN: 0924-4670
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0358
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 219
Topics: Grammar, Theoretical Linguistics, Syntax, Romance Languages