Linguists offer a number of perspectives on the questions of what the basic ingredients of the nominal argument are, and whether there are any cross-linguistic generalizations to be made about potential universals within the constituent traditionally known as the "noun phrase." Among the topics are definiteness and the structure of noun phrases in Slavic, evidence from colloquial Slovenian for a definite article in the AP, the case for a genitive case in Bulgarian, reciprocity expressions, about the vocative, and Slavic clitic systems in a typological perspective. Annotation ©2014 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)