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182 ANTONIA ANDROUTSOPOULOUshown in (22a) and (4la)), whereas in Greek, this movement does not take placeovertly." In both languages <strong>the</strong> noun raises as high as D/PP, obligatorily inAlbanian (cf. (22a) and (4la)) and optionally in Greek, as can be seen from <strong>the</strong>availability <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> two orders, noun-adjective, and adjective-noun, as in (23b) and(46) respectively (cf. also <strong>the</strong> corresponding derivations in (23a) and (47)), withno difference in <strong>the</strong> interpretation. Finally, Albanian and Greek differ with respectto <strong>the</strong> structure <strong>of</strong> prenominal adjectives in <strong>the</strong> two languages in that inGreek, as opposed to Albanian, prenominal adjectives do not have a focus interpretation,and thus, no movement <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> sort proposed for [p/pp [te mirin]] in(41 b) can be motivated for Greek (compare <strong>the</strong> proposed structures <strong>of</strong> prenominaladjectives for Albanian in (4la) and (41b), for Greek in (47)).In Androutsopoulou (1994, 1995), I took <strong>the</strong> structures <strong>of</strong> (45) and (46) tobe as in (48) and (49), respectively:(48) [ DP [ D to ] [ AP kalo [ NP vivlio]]](49) [ DP [ D tOj\ [ DEFP i [ DEF ] tj ] [ AP kalo [QEFP2 to ^NP vivl

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