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7Adjectival Determiners in Albanian and GreekAntonia Androutsopoulou1. IntroductionThis essay deals with the syntax of adjectival determiners concentrating mainlyon data from Albanian and Greek. The term adjectival determiner ("DET" in theglosses) refers to the element to preceding the adjective in the Greek example in(la) and the element e in the Albanian example in (Ib):(1) a. to vivlio *(to) kalo b. djal-in *(e) mirethe book DET good boy-DEF DET good'the good book''the good boy (ACC)'Following an analysis of relative clauses along the lines in Vergnaud (1974) andKayne (1994), the structure of a noun modified by a relative clause, like that in(2a), is as in (2b), where the modified noun book raises to Spec, CP from itsthematic position:(2) a. the book that I readb. [QP to lhe \ ECP book i lc !/ul!^ UP ' read 'i ]MThe novelty of the structure in (2b) is that it allows for a CP to be the complementof the determiner head D^. The proposal in this essay is that the presenceof an adjectival determiner evidences a relativizing structure within the DP containingthe adjective. More specifically, I propose that the DPs in (la) and (Ib)have the surface structures in (3a) and (3b) respectively:(3) a. [ Dp to [ D/P p vivliof [ D/P to] [ AgrP kabj t ; tj ]]]b. [ Dp [djaliiij] [ D/PP P [ tj J; [ D/P el LAgrP'"'^} ' c i l j ^Kayne (1994) argues that the projection complement of D in structures of thesort found in (2b) and (3) may be occupied by a complementizer, as in (2b), or a2161