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ADJECTIVAL DETERMINERS IN ALBANIAN AND GREEK 19718. I maintain that examples like (i), in which the noun is separated from itscomplement and which are also possible in Greek:(i) o davinazinos o meyalos ja ton Aristotelithe admiration the great for the Aristotle'the great admiration for Aristotle'have the structure shown in (ii). That is, that they involve remnant movement of thesame XP that 1 maintain is preposed in (36) in the text:(ii) IDP °\ to/PP [\P '/ Vuvmazmos tfy [ D/p o][ Agrl p meyalos/. Agr, [ yplVfl tonAristotelilj [ t: t^In (ii), the PP ja tun Aristoteli 'for Aristotle' has moved out of the XP o Vavmazinos jaton Aristoteli prior to the movement of the latter to Spec, D/PP. The example in (iii)below should be derived from (36) in the text through the movement, proposed here,of the PP ja ton Aristoteli to a projection higher than XP:(iii) o meyalos ja ton Aristoteli o 6avmazmosthe great for the Aristotle the admiration'the great admiration for Aristotle'19. The marked order would be that in (37b), requiring emphatic stress on kokinoand being appropriate in a situation in which one wishes to refer "among big booksto the red one."20. The remark made in note 19, with respect to the contrast in (37), applieshere also.21. In Androutsopoulou (1994, 1995), I took the structure of (38a) to be as in(i), with subsequent movement of the head of DEFP1 to to the head of DP:W ID? IDEFPI to [meyalo [ DE pp 2 '" [kokino [ DEt ,-p3 to [ N p vivlio ]]]]]]]Constructions (39a) and (39b) are derived by movement of DEFP3 to Spec, DEFP2and Spec, DEFP1, respectively; (39c) by movement of DEFP2 to Spec, DEFP1; and(39d) by movement of DEFP3 to Spec, DEFP2 and subsequent movement of DEFP2 toSpec, DEFP1. A final step in the derivation of (39a)-(39d) is movement of the hierarchicallyhigher DEF head to the head of DP.22. This difference between the two languages quite plausibly accounts for anothercontrast between Albanian and Greek. As shown in (ia), Albanian does not havesplit DPs of the sort exemplified in (ib) for Greek. In (ib), the adjective is contrastivelvfocused:(i) a. *te kuqin bleva fustanDET red-DEF brought dressb. to KOKINO ejera foremathe redbrought dress'It is the RED dress that I bought.'In Androutsopoulou (1997), I propose that examples like (ib) are derived as in (ii):(ii) a. [ r Ypforema l lyp P efera [rjp to kokino tjb • tF(ocus)P [DP lo kokllw [ iJk iF(ocus) e f em j\ j \lpforemai a[vp efera t kthrough movement of an XP containing the noun, minimally an NP, to a sentencelevelprojection TP. as in (iia), and subsequent movement of the remnant DP to a sentence-levelF(ocus) P(hrase), as in (iib). Due to the fact that in Albanian the noun isobligatorily left-adjoined to D, the first step in the derivation in (ii), shown in (iia),is unavailable.23. If the specifier of D/PP were occupied by an indefinite noun, the head of D/Pwould be occupied by the nondefinite token of the Albanian adjectival determiner.