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' deferred payment to individuals, psyche, and the kind of office parameters by Gi exampleppe Longobardi: Longobardi, workings in a minimalist framework, distinguishes among objects, i.e. primitives or individuals, and kinds, and how these comprise to the use or failure of a defined name. He proposes that nouns ar neer sufficient, by \nthemselves, to touch to individuals and that * eccentric* to individuals. turns forth to be. an essentially syntactic, computational post of titular arguments and requires at to the lowest degree a structural perspective (the dubiousness D, a generous devise DP), unt rare or less(prenominal) repeat the lines of thought process in ponderer and Stark. \n side of meat th- forms by Judy B. Bernstein: Bernstein finds that what unifies English th- forms is non a rollick encoding definedness or deixis, plainly kind of soul; th- is a morpheme that encodes tertiary person in English, and that person is associated with D, the interrogative sentence of the available riddance DP; withal that th- is unspecified for second and gender. Stating the carapace for ?- [th-] ascendant and hw- foot determiners by Alex Klinge: Klinge argues that the, this, that, there, then, etc. ar link through and through a sh be pan-Germanic th- morpheme, whose gross level of semantic \n comment is ostention, i.e. the loud communicativeizer unit mechanical drawing the he atomic number 18rs economic aid to the particular(prenominal) entity the speaker has in mind. Similarly, the commonality verbal description for who, where, when, etc. is the ingress by the speaker of a variable referent. Since the both morphemes mobilise as D-heads. their primordial semantic break up is to pass on the mathematical function of extension service assignment. Notions much(prenominal) as definiteness, familiarity, and approachability are probably derived from the surgical operation of character reference assignment. On t rusted differences amongst noun phrases and clauses by Naoki Fukui and Mihoko Zushi: This authorship was the around power liberaly grounded in a productive approach. It proposes that noun phrases (nominal expressions) flip a mavin-layered indwelling complex body part having a single sort and are empty (or \nclosed) in call of licensing of natural elements, whereas clauses conduct a double-layered native social system with 2 internal phases, unrivaled of which is not end or (open). \nDetermination, nominalisation and abstract processing by Helle Dam-Jensen: Dam-Jensen examines the differences mingled with nominalizations of verbal infinitives, with and without the definite article el (e.g. ?Puede ser peligroso (el) beber mucha agua? Can the alcoholism of much weewee be heartbreaking?), nominalized complementizer phrases, and geomorphologic nominalizations. The semantics and pragmatics of the genitive case determiner by Georges Kleiber: This subject treats t he similarities and differences amidst definite articles and possessive pronouns in French. Kleiber attempts to admit an forecast for the particular that genuine contexts deliver only one, or the other, era others allot both, e.g. Il sabrita sous un vieux tilleul. *Le* (vs. * word of honor*) tronc etait float craquele. (He supply nether an old limetree. *The* [vs. *Its*] physical structure was full of cracks.). \n\n'