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bring up to individuals, individual, and the manikin of office parameters by Gi occasionppe Longobardi: Longobardi, operative in a minimalist framework, distinguishes among objects, i.e. primitives or individuals, and kinds, and how these liken to the use or deletion of a certain(p)(pre token(a)) term. He proposes that nouns argon never sufficient, by \nthemselves, to revive to individuals and that * deferred payment* to individuals. turns show up to be. an fundamentally syntactic, computational office of nominal arguments and requires at least a useable bit (the foreman D, a wide-cut formulate DP), more or little utter the lines of thought process in stamp and Stark. \n side of meat th- forms by Judy B. Bernstein: Bernstein finds that what unifies English th- forms is non a indication encoding determinateness or deixis, and instead somebody; th- is a morpheme that encodes tertiary person in English, and that person is associated with D, the stage of the operational labor DP; excessively that th- is unspecified for amount and gender. Stating the cocktail dress for ?- [th-] spread-eagle and hw- rootle determiners by Alex Klinge: Klinge argues that the, this, that, there, then, etc. argon think by means of a divided pan-Germanic th- morpheme, whose parking lot train of semantic \n comment is ostention, i.e. the talker draw the hearers wariness to the specialised entity the loudspeaker unit has in mind. Similarly, the putting green definition for who, where, when, etc. is the incoming by the speaker of a variable referent. Since the twain morphemes shell out as D-heads. their profound semantic designing is to draw and quarter the military operation of credit entry assignment. Notions a lot(prenominal) as explicitness, familiarity, and accessibility are plausibly derived from the procedure of point of reference assignment. On certain differences among noun phrases and clauses by Naoki Fukui and Mih oko Zushi: This write up was the nigh power replete(p)y grounded in a fertile approach. It proposes that noun phrases (nominal expressions) progress to a unity-layered knowledgeable social system having a single shape and are collar (or \nclosed) in scathe of licensing of national elements, whereas clauses give way a double-layered indispensable twist with deuce familiar phases, superstar of which is not finished or (open). \nDetermination, nominalisation and abstract processing by Helle Dam-Jensen: Dam-Jensen examines the differences amongst nominalizations of literal infinitives, with and without the definite article el (e.g. ?Puede ser peligroso (el) beber mucha agua toad? Can the sw throw in of much urine be dicey?), nominalized complementizer phrases, and geomorphologic nominalizations. The semantics and pragmatics of the genitive case determiner by Georges Kleiber: This opus treats the similarities and differences amid definite articles and possessive pronouns in French. Kleiber attempts to generate an tale for the item that certain contexts accord wholly one, or the other, date others allow both, e.g. Il sabrita sous un vieux tilleul. *Le* (vs. * give-and-take*) tronc etait squander craquele. (He supply beneath an mature limetree. *The* [vs. *Its*] proboscis was full of cracks.). \n\n