The behavior of nominal ellipsis in Italian: a focus on definite articles and distal pronouns

This work looks at the nominal ellipsis in Italian, focusing in context with definite articles and distal pronoun. The first part gives examples concerning the phenomenon, trying to give some preliminary explanation. The second chapter investigates what happens in contexts with an article and a deleted noun, arguing for an analysis where the nominal ellipsis in italian is not always possible. In the third chapter we look at some problems related to the distal pronoun and its analysis in ellipsis context, and raise some problems looking to different analysis of the phenomenon.