Introduction

Abstract

The questions this special issue addresses include but are not limited to the following:. What functional projections are found in the extended nominal projection? Is the functional hierarchy universal (Cinque 2010), language-specific, or is its variation constrained in some way (Wiltschko 2014)? . What kinds of reduced nominal expressions are found in natural language? Bare NPs? Bare NumPs? Cl+N expressions without numerals? Caseless nouns? How does this inventory of reduced nominals inform us about, and relate to noun incorporation and pseudo noun incorporation?