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ADJECTIVAL DETERMINERS IN ALBANIAN AND GREEK169(24)A remark is appropriate here on the token of the definite determiner to precedingvivlio in (24). This token of the definite determiner is, except for the fact that itis a free morpheme, parallel in all relevant aspects to the suffix -in on the nounin the Albanian example in (22b). They are both the spell-out of the features[+DEF, [3 Case, y gender, 8 number]. In this particular case, (3=nominative or accusativefor the Greek example and accusative for the Albanian example,5 = singular for both the Albanian and the Greek example, and y = masculine forthe Albanian example and neuter for the Greek example. Since to is a free morpheme,a projection the head of which is occupied by to is postulated in (24).The structure in (22a) and (23a) is in all relevant aspects parallel to that in (21)above. Thus, the adjectival determiner in (22b) and (23b) is to be understood as arelativizing head, parallel to C in (21). Essentially, then, as already mentioned,the claim is that in the cases at hand, adjectival modification introduces a DPcontaining a relativizing structure. Kayne (1994) takes a similar stand for anumber of adjectival constructions, for instance the French one in (25):(25) a.b.quelq'un de celebresomeone of famousD to/PR [NP quelq'uni] de [ [P(from Kayne 1994.106)[ A p celeb re j\ ( I [e]j [e]jBoth in (22a) and (23a) the noun moves, as part of an XP, to Spec, D/PP. Thismovement of the noun is a movement akin to that of the relativized head in relativeclauses like that in (21). I want to claim (on a par with Androutsopoulou1995) that the motivation of this movement, in the case of adjectival modification,is the licensing of an identification relation between the noun and its modifyingadjective, akin to the 6 identification relation, which, followingHigginbotham (1985), holds between a noun and its modifying adjective, and