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Structure of the talk Argument 1: positing empty nouns has the effect of making a potentially empirically contentful hypothesis unfalsifiable. Argument 2: two types of determiners: those that may, and those that may not, introduce headless NPs. Argument 3: prenominal adjectives: not possible in headless NPs.
Argument 1 The empty noun reduces a hypothesis/claim to unfalsifiability. The claim that every XP is the projection of an X 0 (the projection claim) is a strong claim (a falsifiable claim) provided an X 0 is always a word—a lexical item with a phonological representation and a syntactic/semantic representation. If we have evidence that some string of words is an XP, we predict that it should include a word of category X in the right position.
Page 1 and 2: No Null Nouns Alex Alsina UPF April
Page 3 and 4: Aim of the talk Structure of a hea
Page 5: Existing work The majority positio
Page 9 and 10: Argument 1 In fact, once we allow
Page 11 and 12: Argument 2: two types of Ds Weak d
Page 13 and 14: C-structure The usual inventory of
Page 15 and 16: Example c-structures DP D′ D NP S
Page 17 and 18: F-structure However, the principle
Page 19 and 20: Sample vocabulary entries aquell: D
Page 21 and 22: Sample det-noun sequences DP D′ D
Page 23 and 24: Example Ds of each kind aquell: D S
Page 25 and 26: The role of null nouns Having empt
Page 27 and 28: Explaining prenominal As Two subty
Page 29 and 30: Excluding illicit structures Why a
Page 31 and 32: What does the null noun do for us?
Page 33: References Bosque, Ignacio (1989):

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