Description: Uses an explicit formal framework to explore and model cross-linguistic variation, in constructions where a noun modifies another noun.
Brief description: Irina A. Nikolaeva author of multiple linguistic publications including Objects and Information Structure (with M. Dalrymple, Cambridge, 2011) and Descriptive Typology and Linguistic Theory: A Study in the Morphosyntax of Relative Clauses (with F. Ackerman, 2013).
Review Quotes: 'I have no doubt that, across different theoretical approaches, the contribution of this monograph will have a broad impact in the linguistic community.' Antonio Fábregas, Language