Layers in the determiner phrase. By Roberto Zamparelli. New York: Garland Publishing, 2000. Pp. xv, 314. Cloth $90.00.

Reviewed by: Layers in the determiner phrase by Roberto Zamparelli Asya Pereltsvaig Layers in the determiner phrase. By Roberto Zamparelli. New York: Garland Publishing, 2000. Pp. xv, 314. Cloth $90.00. This is a slightly revised version of the author’s doctoral dissertation from 1995. The main goal of this study is to ‘construct a working theory of the syntax/semantics interplay in the noun phrase’ (7), one which relates different semantic types of referential, quantificational, and predicative noun phrases with distinct levels of syntactic projection. In particular, Zamparelli proposes to split the DP projection into three projections: SDP (Strong Determiner Phrase), PDP (Predicative Determiner Phrase), and KDP (Kind Determiner Phrase). According to Z, the highest maximal projection contains strong determiners, proper names, and personal pronouns while the intermediate projection contains those determiners that can appear in a predicative position. Furthermore, Z argues that in some cases these abstract functional heads can be licensed if a modifier of the appropriate type is generated or moved into their specifiers. In English and Italian this type of movement is made visible through the appearance of the preposition ‘of’. This hypothesis allows Z to account for the ‘kind’-construction in Romance and Germanic in a way parallel to the analysis of copular sentences, as well as for the behavior of object clitics in Italian, the presuppositional aspect of the strong/weak distinction for determiners, the different distribution of noun phrases within there-sentences in Italian and English, and the internal structure of a special kind of definite predicates in copular constructions. The book opens with a brief introduction to the issues discussed in later chapters. Ch. 1 deals the semantic and syntactic preliminaries, including the background on type-shifting and the DP hypothesis, as well as a brief description of the crucial data and the terminological conventions used throughout the book. Ch. 2 is devoted to semantic issues, and the strong/weak distinction for determiners is discussed here. From the empirical point of view, this chapter is mostly concerned with the definiteness effect in existential sentences and the apparent lack of such effect [End Page 363] in Italian. Ch. 3 focuses on the apparently weak usage of every in the ‘kind’-construction ‘every kind of N’ and ‘N of every kind’. These facts are explained by arguing that ‘every kind’ in every kind of car is not the head of the DP but a raised modifier of the noun ‘car’. This analysis is based on Andrea Moro’s earlier analysis of copular sentences. This parallel between the ‘kind’-construction and copular sentences is used to explain similar extraction and agreement facts, both in Italian and English. In Ch. 4, the main idea of the book—that DP is a layered structure with the three topmost layers corresponding to the referential, predicative, and kind interpretations—is discussed in more detail. The predictions of this hypothesis, namely, that the predicative phrase cannot contain referential material, are tested and shown to be borne out for English and Italian. In Ch. 5, Z returns to existential sentences, which he analyzes as collapsing together two similar structures, a locative predication and an existence statement. In the last part of this chapter, Z discusses equative sentences. Ch. 6 deals with some issues in the distribution and the semantics of numerals. Finally, Ch. 7 extends the analysis of DPs to adjectival phrases and argues that in Romance, the adjective moves much like N in DP, leaving measure phrases behind. Asya Pereltsvaig University of Tromsø Copyright © 2002 Linguistic Society of America