Noun Phrases and Nominalizations: The Syntax of DPs by T. Siloni

By T. Siloni

Noun words and Nominalizations: The Syntax of DPs is a theoretical examine of nominal expressions which covers principal features in their syntax that experience no longer been approached with concurrent instruments in recent times. The examine examines the sensible constitution, deals a structural definition of syntactic nominalization, and punctiliously attracts the border line among the lexical nominalizing mechanism and its syntactic counterpart. The empirical base of the examine is extensive and sundry: it explores the wealthy nominal approach of contemporary Hebrew with consistent comparisons to appropriate constructions of alternative Semitic and non-Semitic languages. The analyses recommend have recourse to a minimum syntactic gear, therefore lending aid to Chomsky's fresh view of language layout.
This booklet goals researchers in theoretical linguistics and comparative syntax. along theoretical and cross-linguistic findings, the publication additionally bargains an considerable resource of insights into Hebrew nominal expressions. it may be used either as a foundational ebook at the syntax of nominal expressions or as a reference booklet for linguists and graduate scholars of Semitic and comparative syntax.

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Structural genitive Case An interesting piece of data given in (40) reveals an important distinction between the behavior of the genitive DP of the construct state and that of sei ('of'). (40a-b) contain the deverbal noun meci'a (,finding'), which takes a small clause as its complement. While the genitive complement of sei cannot be the subject of the small clause (40a), the genitive DP of the construct state can do so (40b), just like the accusative complement of the corresponding verb (40c): NOUN RAISING AND GENITIV AL RELATIONS 41 (40) a.

Which is never attested in Hebrew noun phrases. 2), which requires further overt N-raising to D and results in the observed word order (-+ indicates movement): (45) a. b. harisat ha-cava 'et ha-'ir destruction the-army ACC the-city 'the army's destruction of the city' DP I D' A Spec NP A N' A N -+ Agrgen I DPs -+ SpecAgrgenP I Agrgen -+ D The same ought to apply to concrete nouns. If the Case of the construct state is a structural Case, it must involve an AgrP, whether the head noun is concrete or deverbal.

The fact that the internal argument can surface in a sei phrase only when the external argument is not realized (5tb) further supports this assumption, suggesting that in the absence of the external so CHAPTER 2 argument, the internal argument can raise to the specifier position of NP, where sei is available. On the same grounds, (S3b) is excluded: if the internal argument surfaces in a sei phrase in the specifier position of NP, the external cannot do so. dey ('by') phrase, as shown in (S2b). There is however no apparent reason why (S3a) is not acceptable.

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