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ADJECTIVAL DETERMINERS IN ALBANIAN AND GREEK 181The most salient difference between (43) and (44) on the one hand and(22a)/(42a) and (4 la), on the other, is the structural position of the adjectival determiner.In (22a)/(42a) and (4la), the adjectival determiner occupies a head positionin the extended projection of the noun modified by the adjective, whereas in(43) and (44), the adjectival determiner is a head in the extended projection of theadjective, occupying a specifier position of the extended projection of the noun.This difference between the present analysis of Albanian adjectival determinersand Giusti's (1992) proposal is further discussed in section 10.1.9.2. GreekLike Albanian, Greek allows for prenominal adjectives as shown below:(45)(46)tothe'the good book'tothekalogoodvivliobookkalo to vivliogood the book'the good dress'I propose for an example like that in (46) the structure in (47):The structure in (47) is the same as that in (24), with an extra step in the derivation,movement of the topmost definite determiner to to D. That is, the structureof the DP in (46), is, modulo this last movement of the definite determiner to,an intermediate step in the derivation of (23b) as shown in (23a).Thus, the major difference between Albanian and Greek is that in Albanian,the noun obligatorily raises to D overtly (two instances of this movement are