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188 ANTONIA ANDROUTSOPOULOUto D). Differences in the ordering of constituents within the DP between the twolanguages can be accounted for in terms of the category of the preposed XP,which contains the noun (cf. section 7). Raising of the noun to D is obligatoryin Albanian, while raising of the noun to D/PP is optional in Greek (cf. section9).Appendix 1In this appendix, I wish to refer briefly to two pieces of data introduced but notdiscussed in the main text:(a) the fact that in Albanian, the adjectival determiner surfaces after anadverbial modifying the adjective, as in examples like (16a) in the text, repeatedhere as (1):(1) domethenie jashte'zakonisht re mad hesignificance-lNDEF unusually DET great"unusually great significance'(b) Albanian adjectival determiners obligatorily precede articulated adjectives(cf. note 3), even in predicative position, as in examples like (l0b) in thetext, repeated here as (2):(2) Mesuesiteacher-DEFishtewasThe teacher was happy.'iDETlutmur.happyExamples like (1) would seem to indicate that in the structure in (23a), an extraprojection should be made available between DP and D/PP. This, however, isincompatible with the main proposal in the text, as depicted in (23a). Thus, itseems to me that examples like (1) suggest an analysis of adverbial modificationalong the following lines: the adverb is generated under a projection, say AdvP,and the modified adjective, along with the adjectival determiner te, moves to occupythe specifier of the projection complement of Adv:(3) [^ypjashte'zakonisht t [[ reunusuallyDETinadhe]- } tj ]]greatso that adverbial modification can be licensed. The piece of structure comprisedof AdvP and its complement projection should be generated higher than a DP. asin (4):(4) [pp dometheniesignificanceED/PPte DETmadhe .. .]]greatand (1) be derived through movement of D/PP to the specifier of the complementof Adv and remnant movement of the whole DP to Spec, AdvP (cf. (3)). Inthis case, we would have to assume that the adverb occupies the head of AdvPand that the target of the remnant DP movement is the specifier of AdvP.