Three Studies in Locality and Case

<strong>Three Studies in Locality and Case</strong> treats a central issue in modern linguistictheory the issue of locality as expressed in the behavior of nono... » 

Three Studies in Locality and Case treats a central issue in modern linguistictheory the issue of locality as expressed in the behavior of nonovertcategories. Alexander Grosu presents a detailed study of nominal phrases freerelatives and their semantic and syntaxical relationship to restrictedrelatives and provides a critical reevaluation of earlier views of pro. Inaddition he offers evidence of a variety of constructions in Rumanianinvolving null operators and makes a thorough analysis of the genetive case inRumanian.Grosu argues that a variety of syntactic properties which distinguish therelatives at issue from restrictives are traceable to two causal factors thattheir internal relativized nominal is semantically weak and that the relativeclause must function as an identifier of pro.This work will be of interest to linguists working on theoretical issues andalso to those concerned with descriptive linguistics. Professor Grosus studyprovies an original analysis of major constructions in Rumanian which havehitherto never been thoroughly investigated. «