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172 ANTONIA ANDROUTSOPOULOU(iii)(iv)in the plural nominative and accusative of all genders,16in the singular genitive, dative, ablative of the feminine.For the other combinations of gender, number, and Case, the form of theadjectival determiner is the same across all the positions in which it may appear,for instance, in the nominative of the singular of the masculine, as in (29):(29) a. djali i mireboy-DEF DET good'the good boy'b. i miri djaleDET good boy'the GOOD boy'The above facts indicate that agreement in definiteness obtains between the nounand the adjectival determiner. I will assume that definiteness agreement betweena definite noun and an adjectival determiner immediately following such a nounobtains also in the cases in which the form of the adjectival determiner does notchange when it is immediately preceded by a definite noun, as in (29). The differencebetween the case in (28) and that in (29) is that in the latter, the definitetoken of the adjectival determiner in (29a) (corresponding to the token in (28b))and the nondefinite token of the adjectival determiner in (29b) (corresponding tothe token in (28a)) are morphologically the same. In the structure in (22a), definitenessagreement between a definite noun and an adjectival determiner immediatelyfollowing it, djalin and e in (22a) and (22b) above, is checked, under aSpec-head configuration, when the former sits in Spec, D/PP.In Greek, also, the occurrence of the adjectival determiner evidences definitenessagreement between the noun and the adjectival determiner. Recall that inGreek, the adjectival determiner is morphologically identical to the correspondingform of the definite determiner, and that it occurs obligatorily only in definiteDPs when the adjective is postnominal. Thus the contrast between (30a) and(30b) and the ungrammaticality of (30c):(30) a.c.*to vivlio kokinothe book red"the red book'*ena vivlio to kokinoa book the red'a red book'b. to vivlio to kokinothe book the red'the red book'd. (ena) vivlio kokinoa book red'a red book'I will call the adjectival determiner that appears in Greek definite DPs, the definitetoken of the adjectival determiner, and will assume that in this language, thenondefinite token of the adjectival determiner, the one that we would expect toappear in an example like (30d), is not morphologically realized. As inAlbanian, definiteness agreement between the noun and the adjectival determineris checked in Greek, when the extended projection of the noun, to vivlio in thestructure in (23a), the relevant part of which is repeated here under (31), sits inthe specifier of D/PP: