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ADJECTIVAL DETERMINERS IN ALBANIAN AND GREEK 191(6) a/to to vivliothis the book'this book'In Alexiadou and Wilder's account, it is unclear what in (2b) motivates themovement of the adjective kalo to Spec, CP. I understand the movement of thenoun to Spec, D/PP in (3) as being of the same kind as the movement of thenoun to Spec, CP in relative clauses (cf. (1)). The noun moves to Spec, D/PPso that the identification relation holding between the adjective and the noun canbe licensed (cf. the relevant discussion in section 5).Second, Alexiadou and Wilder's generalization in (30) (Alexiadou andWilder, 1999.319), the major argument for their analysis, repeated here as (7):(7) An adjective permits DS only if it can be used predicatively.appears to be incorrect in view of examples like those in (8) and (9):(8) a. o kaimenos o mathitisthe pitiable the student'the pitiable student'b. *aftos o mathitis ine kaimenosthis the student is pitiable"This student is pitiable.'(9) a. o proighoumenos o prothipourghosthe former the prime minister'the former prime minister'b. *aftos o prothipourghos ine proighoumenosthis the prime minister is former'this prime minister is former'The adjectives kaimenos 'pitiable' and proighoumenos 'former' appear in determinerspreading contexts, as can be seen in (8a) and (9a), but they cannot beused predicatively, as it can be seen in (8b) and (9b), respectively. Consequently,examples like those in (8) and (9) must be explained away if one is to maintain,as Alexiadou and Wilder do, that in determiner spreading contexts the source ofthe adjectives is a DP-internal BE predication, and, furthermore, that what differentiates(2d) from (5) above is that in (2d), the adjective is base generated postnominallyin a predication configuration, with the noun being the subject andthe adjective being the predicate (cf. (2c)), whereas in (5), the adjective is generatedprenominally, as in (10):(10)25[DP the [ good [ book }]]"Third, a major point in Alexiadou and Wilder's work is that the two modesof adjectival modification exemplified in (2a) and (5) have completely differentstructures and are dissociated from one another. By dissociating the two types ofadjectival modification, futher exemplified in (1 la) and (11b) 2( ':