Table of Contents

1. Exo-Skeletal Explanations
1: Structuring Sense: Introductory Comments
2: Nuts and Bolts
2. Determining Structures
3: The Proper Way: Some Introductory Comments in the Context of Proper Names
4: Some Stuff on the Mass-Count Distinction
5: Things that Count: Null D
6: Things that Count: Null # and Others
3. Another Language, Another System
7: One is the Loneliest Number
8: Cheese and Olives, Bottles, and Cups

About the Author

Hagit Borer received her Ph.D. in Linguistics at MIT in 1981. She has held positions at the University of California at Irvine and at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and is currently the chair of the linguistics department at the University of Southern California. Her research interests include syntax, morphosyntax, the syntax-semantics interface, and the acquisition of syntax.

Reviews

Syntacticians like Borer define the big research questions for the rest of us. Two provocative and inspiring books. Angelika Kratzer Hagit Borer's two volumes are a truly impressive achievement. She develops an original and careful theoretical framework, with far-reaching implications, as she describes. And she applies it in what have traditionally, and plausibly, been the two major domains of language: nominals and predication (event structure). The application is deeply informed and scrupulously executed, as well as remarkably comprehensive, covering a wide range of typologically different languages, and with much new material. No less valuable is her careful critical review of the rich literature on these topics, drawing from it where appropriate, identifying problems and developing alternatives within the general framework she has developed. These are sure to become basic sources for further inquiry into the fundamental issues she explores with such insight and understanding. Noam Chomsky