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194 ANTONIA ANDROUTSOPOULOUadjectives bearing obligatorily an adjectival determiner and, more precisely, on theDP-internal syntax of these adjectives.4. The alternation between the presence or not of Case and definiteness markingon the adjective is reminiscent of participle object agreement in French A 1 - movedparticiples, which show number and gender agreement by means of movementthrough AgrP (Kayne 1989).5. That is, for a certain combination of gender, number, and Case, when the adjectivaldeterminer immediately follows a definite noun, it has a form different fromthat in all the other positions in which it may appear. It should be noted here thatthere are combinations of Case, number, and gender for which the adjectival determinerdoes not change across all the positions in which it may occur (for more details,cf. section 6). Also, as we will see in more detail in section 6, in the singulargenitive, dative, and ablative of the feminine, the form of the adjectival determinerimmediately following a definite noun is no different from its form in all the otherpositions in which it may appear. Rather, for the singular genitive, dative and ablativeof the feminine, the form of the adjectival determiner that precedes an adjectivein the definite form (that is an adjective bearing a definite Case ending) is the same asthe form of the adjectival determiner that immediately follows a definite noun(Newmark, Hubbard, and Prifti 1982.181).6. Genitive is the conventional label for the forms, so called because they correspondto and derive from earlier Greek genitives; some of their functions, however,are prototypically dative, as in (i):(i) edosa to vivlio lou Kostagave-lSG the book the-GEN Kostas-GEN'I gave the book to Kostas.'7. The string to vivlio kalo (lit. 'the book good') is ungrammatical as a nounphrase but acceptable as a sentence, with an understood copula, meaning 'the book isgood', as B. D. Joseph reminds me.8. But see the following examples:(i) tipota (to) exeretikonothing the special'nothing special'(ii) kali (to) exeretikosomething the special'something special'9. I will take no stand with respect to the category of FP or its internal structure.I propose the structure in (22a) as the surface structure. I assume that within FP, therelative ordering of the adjective and the noun is noun-adjective, in accordance withthe intuition that the adjective, in the general case, is predicated of the noun; myproposal, however, does not crucially depend on this assumption. The treatment ofadjectival determiners as relativizing heads is not necessarily dependent on the particularstructural configuration in which attributive adjectives are taken to be basegenerated with respect to the noun they modify. For instance, the analysis of adjectivaldeterminers put forward in this essay is not, a priori, incompatible with an analysisof attributive adjectives as a series of heads from left to right within the main DPstructure, the rightmost taking the noun as complement, as in Abney (1987):(i) [DP[APl[AP2[APn[NPNeither is it incompatible with an analysis of attributive adjectives as occupying thespecifier position of functional heads of the main DP structure, along the lines setforth in Cinque (1994):