ABSTRACT

The main topic of this work is the interaction between syntactic structure and meanin within the noun phrase, with data drwn primarily from English and Italian.

chapter |4 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|31 pages

Preliminaries

chapter 3|46 pages

The kind-construction and its relatives

chapter 4|65 pages

The layers of DP

chapter 5|56 pages

Existentials, Locatives and Identity

chapter 6|34 pages

Numerals and Specificity