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12 MARIA LUISA RIVERO AND ANGELA RALL1b. / Anna idele na (tis) ayorasi ena forema. Grkthe Ann wanted na (her) buy a dress'Ann wanted to buy a dress.'(12) a. An-a donte te blente fustan. AlbAnn-the wanted te buy dressb. / Anna Idele na ayorasi forema. Grkthe Ann wanted na buy dress'Ann wanted to buy (a) dress.'(13) a. * An-a donte t- a blente fustan. Albb. */ Anna idele na tis ayorasi forema. GrkHere, then, we have some new ideas on how the parallel accusative doublingof Albanian and Greek relates to information structure, combined with a recentanalysis of clitic constructions in Universal Grammar.The essays by Androutsopoulou and Rivero that close the volume deal withtopics with a shorter history in the development of generative theory that havereceived considerable attention in recent years: the movements of nouns andverbs and their respective relationship to the functional structure of the nounphrase and of the clause.While the argument structure of noun phrases is counted among traditionaltopics in generative grammar, the study of the functional structure of suchphrases bears more recent dates. Interest in this topic was sparked by the DPhypothesis, or the idea, developed most prominently by Abney (1987), thatnoun phrases consist of a determiner heading a functional projection with thenoun phrase as complement. Among Balkan languages, it seems that Romanianfirst attracted attention from this new perspective (Dobrovie-Sorin 1987, Grosu1988), but considerable work on this and other Balkan languages soon followed.Arnaudova (1996) provides a useful list of references on the topic and summarizesthe main positions as to the analysis of adjectives.In "Adjectival Determiners in Albanian and Greek," AntoniaAndroutsopoulou touches on several connected aspects of the functional structureof DPs. Her main aim, however, is a precise analysis of the determiners that areshown in bold and precede the adjective in the examples in (14) and relatedstructures. Such items, glossed DET and dubbed adjectival determinersaccompany in Albanian the determinerlike noun suffix -in, and in Greek theprenominal or first determiner to.(14) a. djal-in e mire. Albboy-the DET good'the good boy'b. to vivlio to kalo. Grkthe book DET good'the good book'