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176 ANTONIA ANDROUTSOPOULOUOn the other hand, the presence of adjectival determiners does allow for permutationsof the order of constituents in a DP containing adjectives, for instance, thatin (38a). The allowed permutations of (38a) are given in (39a)-(39d):(39) a.b.c.d.tothetothetothetothemeyalobig'the [big [red book]]'to vivlio to kokinothe book the redvivlio to meyalo tobook the big thekokinoredvivliobooktotheto vivliothe bookkokinoredkokinoredtothetothemeyaloWe observe from (39c) and (39d) that the change in the order of adjectives correlateswith preposing of the noun. Thus, assuming a fixed, hierarchical, left-torightrelative order of adjectives —for the adjectives meyalo 'big' and kokino'red' in the examples under consideration in (38a) —all the allowed permutationsof the order of constituents in (38a), as shown in (39), cannot be possibly derivedby N raising of vivlio 'book' (cf. Androutsopoulou 1994, 1995 for detaileddiscussion). An N raising analysis of the preposing of the noun in (39a)-(39d)becomes even more implausible if we observe that such preposing is accompaniedby preposing of a token of the definite determiner. Example (39c) can onlybe derived from (38a) if we postulate preposing of a bigger constituent containingvivlio and the adjective kokino. Similarly, (39d) can only be derived from(38a) through preposing of a bigger constituent containing vivlio and kokino,within which vivlio has already been preposed (these movements of to kokino tovivlio, to vivlio to kokino, and to vivlio are parallel to that of to vivlio in (23a);cf. also (24)). That an analysis of (39a)-(39d), taking the structure of (38a) asthe basic structure, is tenable is evidenced by the fact that all the permutations in(39) have, or allow for, the relative scope of adjectives to be the same as that in(38a) (or that in (37a)), namely, that indicated by the brackets in the gloss of theparadigms in (37)-(39). I assume here that the movements that derive (39a)-(39d) from (38a) do not affect the hierarchical relative scope of adjectives, whichis determined by their order in the structure of (38a) (minimally different fromthat of (37a); see, in this respect, the structures in (47) and (50) below); in both(37a) and (38a), the adjectives are hierarchically ordered."bigmeyalobig9. Adjectival determiners with prenominal adjectives9.1. AlbanianIn Albanian DPs, adjectives may be prenominal as in (13a), repeated as (40):