Noun Phrases and Nominalizations

Noun Phrases and Nominalizations: The Syntax of DPs is a theoretical study of nominal expressions which covers central aspects of their syntax that have not been approached with concurrent tools in recent years. The study examines the functional structure, offers a structural definition of syntactic nominalization, and carefully draws the border line between the lexical nominalizing mechanism and its syntactic counterpart. The empirical base of the study is broad and varied: it explores the rich nominal system of Modern Hebrew with constant comparisons to relevant structures of other Semitic and non-Semitic languages. The analyses put forward have recourse to a minimal syntactic apparatus, thus lending support to Chomsky's recent view of language design.
This book targets researchers in theoretical linguistics and comparative syntax. Alongside theoretical and cross-linguistic findings, the book also offers an abundant source of insights into Hebrew nominal expressions. It can be used both as a foundational book on the syntax of nominal expressions or as a reference book for linguists and graduate students of Semitic and comparative syntax.

1: Theoretical issues. - 1. 0. Preliminaries. - 1. 1. Nominalizations and DPs. - 1. 2. Some basic theoretical assumptions. - 2: Noun raising and genitival relations. - 2. 0. Background. - 2. 1. Construct states versus free states. - 2. 2. Free states. - 2. 3. Construct states. - 2. 4. Clitic and clitic doubling constructions. - 2. 5. Summary. - 3: Event nominals. - 3. 0. Introduction. - 3. 1. Event versus result nominals. - 3. 2. Adverbial PPs not adverbs. - 3. 3. Two types of accusative Case. - 3. 4. Inherent accusative. - 3. 5. Subjectless event nominals. - 3. 6. Concluding remarks. - Appendix: Concrete nouns. - 4: Semi-relatives and reduced relatives. - 4. 0. Introduction. - 4. 1. Hebrew semi-relatives. - 4. 2. On the parallelism between CP and DP. - 4. 3. French reduced relatives. - 4. 4. Unified analysis. - 4. 5. Concluding remarks. - 5: Verbal and nominal gerunds. - 5. 0. Introduction. - 5. 1. Verbal gerunds: properties. - 5. 2. Sentential approaches to verbal gerunds. - 5. 3. Nominalization. - 5. 4. DP-zation. - 5. 5. Nominal gerunds. - 5. 6. Conclusion. - Abbreviations. - References. - Index of names. - Index of subjects.