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specifier of an NP is the position of the external, Agent argument of an e-nominal
such as ha-harisa šel ha-cava et ha-ir (‘the army’s destruction of the city’), as shown
in (10). Spec-NP, therefore, is clearly not appropriate to host an operator. 8
(10) NP
DP N’
the army’s N DP
destruction
the city
If the discussed le-nominal sequence is a PP, then an additional position is
available, the specifier of the PP:
(11) PP
Op P’
P
le-
NP
N’
N
t
Even if the specifier of the PP headed by le- is an A’-position, (11) is
problematic, as the Op moves out of the nominal. A’-movement out of nominals in
Hebrew is not attested, as shown in (12): 9
8 If the nominal was a DP, then in addition to spec-NP, there was a spec-DP position which could, in
principle, host an Op. Indeed, Op-movement into a specifier of a (modifier) DP is proposed in Siloni
(1994, 1997) for semi-relatives.
9 Note that in the analysis of Hebrew semi-relatives in Siloni (1994, 1997), Op moves into spec-DP, i.e.
the movement is within the nominal.