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186 ANTONIA ANDROUTSOPOULOUIn (58) the complement of F2 hosting the adjectival determiner is an XP, orminimally an NP, containing a pro with the same features as the noun drejtori:Such a structure was proposed by Dobrovie-Sorin (1987) in her analysis ofRumanian genitives like those in (59):(59) prieten al regeluifriend-MASC'friend of the king'a-DEF.MASC.SG king-DEF.MASC.SGwhich are of the same sort as those of Albanian (the Romanian element al in(59) corresponds to the element i of an Albanian example like (54a), discussed inthis section). However, the structure in (58) enhances a problem already presentin the structure in (57). Within a DP, there is a thematic relation between thenoun whose extended projection the DP is and a genitive included in that DP. Ina representation of genitives along the lines of (57) or (58), an element, theadjectival determiner that, crucially, does not belong to the extended projectionof the noun in the genitive mediates and, from the point of view of a principlelike the Principle of Full Interpretation (Chomsky 1986b), "disturbs" this thematicrelation.Grosu (1988), in his analysis of Romanian genitives, analyzes the Romanianelement al as a head in the main structure of the DP containing the genitiveDP, similar to what I propose here in (56a) for the corresponding Albanian elementi. Also, the analysis of Aromanian genitives in Androutsopoulou (1998) isin the same spirit as that of Albanian genitives in this section.In sum, on the basis of the discussion in this section, we can conclude thatan analysis of Albanian adjectival determiners along the lines in (56a) is preferableto that in (57). Because the morphemes appearing before the adjective in exampleslike (22b) (cf. (22a)) and before genitives in examples like (54) (cf.(56a)) are identical, we would not want to have them base generated in two differentpositions. Thus, the analysis of Albanian adjectival determiners proposedin this essay (cf. (22a)) is preferable to that in (43).10.2. GreekIn contrast to Albanian, Greek does not allow for overt adjectival determinerswith genitives. That is, an example corresponding to the Albanian one in (54a),where an adjectival determiner precedes the genitive, is ungrammatical:(60) a.*o SiefBindisthe-MASC.NOM principal-MASC. NOMtuthe-GEN.NEUsxoliu'the school principal'school-GEN.NEUb. o Siefdindis ton sxoliuothe-MASC.NOM