ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book seeks to focus on the projections corresponding to unconditional sentences (UCs) patterns and to understand to what extent the structures may be analyzed under a unified proposal to account for the relatively homogeneous meaning UCs tend to display across languages. It examines the computation of nominal reference by appealing to the case module, an attempt that provides a unified proposal to account for the data ruled by the binding principles. The book offers a new approach to Picasso’s verbal expression by analyzing the painter’s poetry through a syntax–semantics interface account. It also examines the scope of interactions of the extreme degree operator underlying exclamatives. The book analyzes Spanish binominal noun phrases (QBNPs). These clauses can be broadly classified in two groups: comparative QBNPs and attributive QBNPs.
