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ADJECTIVAL DETERMINERS IN ALBANIAN AND GREEK173(31)Construction (30a) is ungrammatical because, as opposed to (30b), no definitetoken of the adjectival determiner, to, sits under D/P. Construction (30c) is ungrammaticalbecause the definite token of the adjectival determiner, to, sits underD/P, while the specifier of D/PP is occupied by an indefinite constituent, (ena)vivlio. For examples like (30d), I assume that the adjectival determiner is notmorphologically realized; that is, Greek, as opposed to Albanian (cf. (15a),(28a)), does not have an overt [-DEF] adjectival determiner.7. Adjectival determiners and XP movementA consequence of the analysis in (22a) and (23a), as already discussed in section5, is that preposing of the noun in the corresponding examples cannot be the resultof head raising. Rather, the noun must raise as part of an XP. That this isthe case is evidenced by the fact that in Greek, preposed nouns may be followedby their complements, as in (32):(32) o davmazmos ja ton Aristoteli o ineyalosthe admiration for the Aristotle the great'the great admiration for Aristotle'Thus, the structure of (32) is as in (33) (cf. also (36) below):(33)