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ADJECTIVAL DETERMINERS IN ALBANIAN AND GREEK167(22) a.In (22a), the adjectival determiner, rather than heing a head contained within aspecifier of the DP structure of the noun djalin, is a head in the main structureof this DP. That is, the adjectival determiner is part of the extended projection ofthe noun with which it agrees. Thus, in a structure like that in (22a), preposingof the noun cannot be an instance of N raising. The D/P head would inhibit suchraising or else the Head Movement Constraint would be violated. Thus, thenoun must appear to the left of the adjective as a result of XP movement ratherthan N movement. So the noun raises as part of a maximal projection first toSpec, Agr2P, and subsequently to Spec, D/PP. I understand Spec, Agr2P as aDP-internal subject position. In Albanian, this position is available only to aconstituent bearing the Case and definiteness marker -in in (22a) (cf. also section9.1)."' Following Chomsky (1995), in (22a) I assume that the noun djalin entersthe syntax fully inflected under N and moves first to Spec, Agr2P and thento Spec, D/PP. In Spec, D/PP, the noun djalin is in an appropriate structuralconfiguration that will allow it to check its categorial N feature against that of D(cf. Chomsky 1995), through the last step in the derivation in (22a), namely,through head movement of djalin to left-adjoin to D. The adjective moves toSpec, AgrlP, which I understand as an agreement projection where morphologib.djalin e mireboy-DEF DET good'the good boy (ACC)' (cf.(13b))