Abstract
Abstract
Chapter 3 offers a succinct description of the patterns of definiteness that can be observed in Balkan Romance, for each possible binary combination between a noun on the one hand and, on the other, a pre-nominal or post-nominal modifier, a pre-nominal or post-nominal demonstrative, a cardinal, a weak or strong quantifier, a complement, and a pre-nominal or post-nominal possessive. The chapter also identifies the possible sources of the variation in definiteness patterns across Balkan Romance: the specific morphosyntactic features of various heads within the DP in each language (including EPP and discourse-related features), and the scope of the proposed Spell-Out rule, which can extend to all the [def] bearing heads that are accessible to D, or be limited to only the closest accessible head bearing [def]. The last part of Chapter 3 discusses the previous literature on definiteness in Balkan Romance languages.
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