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196 ANTONIA ANDROUTSOPOULOU(ii) ena vivlio kaloa book good'a good book'16. In the singular genitive, dative, and ablative of the feminine, the form of theadjectival determiner immediately following a definite noun is not different from itsform in all the other positions in which it may appear. Rather, for the singular genitive,dative, and ablative of the feminine, the form of the adjectival determiner thatprecedes an adjective in the definite form (that is, an adjective bearing a definite Caseending) is the same as the form of the adjectival determiner that immediately followsa definite noun. An example is the 'substantivized articulated adjective'se ardhmes in(ia) below, which involves the form ardhmes, an adjective in the definite form. In seardhmes, the form of the adjectival determiner, se, is the same as that immediatelyfollowing the definite noun in (28b) in the text. On the other hand, in (ib), the formof the adjectival determiner immediately preceding the adjective afert is te, whichmorphologically identical to the adjectival determiner in (28a) because in both (28a)and (ib) te follows a form in the indefinite: in (28a), the noun vajze, and in (ib), the"substativized articulated adjective" te ardhmeje. Also, the form of the adjectival determinerthat precedes ardhmeje in te ardhmeje in (ib) is again te, because ardhmejeis an indefinite form:(i) a. i se ardhmesGEN DET(DEF) future'of the future'b. /GENnjeateDET(INDEF)ardhmejefutureteDET(INDEF)afertnear'of a near future'I will assume with no further discussion that for the case discussed in this note, aswell, that is, for the singular genitive, dative, and ablative of the feminine (as for allthe other combinations of gender, number, and Case discussed in the text), only thetoken of the adjectival determiner immediately following a definite noun is the definitetoken of the adjectival determiner, and that the coincidence in the form of the adjectivaldeterminer preceding an adjective in the definite form with the form of the adjectivaldeterminer immediately following a definite noun in the singular genitive,dative, and ablative of the feminine is not related to agreement in definiteness, atleast not in a straightforward way. It may be that the exceptional behavior of the adjectivaldeterminer for the singular genitive, dative, and ablative of the feminine isrelated to inherent Case assignment: the irregularity in the paradigm of the forms ofthe Albanian adjectival determiner discussed in this note obtains only in the inherentCases, genitive, dative, and ablative.17. 1 assume here that the indefinite determiner is not generated under D. In someways, the indefinite ena is more like an adjective than an article; for instance, as B.D. Joseph points out, it is possible for a clitic possessive pronoun to attach to it, asin (i), in the same way it attaches to an adjective, as in (ii):(i) ena mou vivlio (ii) to kalo mou vivlioa mine bookthe good mine book'a book of mine''my good book'Furthermore, the possessive clitic cannot attach to the definite determiner, as shownin (iii):(iii) *to mou vivliothe mine book