Specificity : the syntax / semantics mapping A research project * MICHELANGELO FALCO

Despite progresses in the last decades in the comprehension of specificity, the core questions of how it is encoded in the grammar and how it determines the syntax/semantics interplay remain open. This paper describes a new perspective for tackling these questions based on a fine grained syntax/semantics for noun phrases. The proposed format should be able to account for the variety of specificity notions advanced in the literature, as well as for their syntactic reflexes.