Context: The inflection of determinatives is complex, specially because of the high number of elisions, but is similar to the neighboring languages. Catalan has more contractions of preposition + article than Spanish, like dels ("of + the [plural]"), but not as many as Italian (which has sul, col, nel, etc.).

Question: What does the large number of omissions  make the determinatives?
Answer: complex

Question: What is much like the neighboring languages?
Answer: inflection of determinatives

Question: What language does Catalan have more contractions than?
Answer: Spanish

Question: Catalan has less contractions than what language?
Answer: Italian

Question: What type of word is added to the contraction of the preposition?
Answer: article