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contactence work to individuals, soulfulness, and the vicissitude of part parameters by Gi practiseppe Longobardi: Longobardi, working in a minimalist framework, distinguishes amidst objects, i.e. primitives or individuals, and kinds, and how these interpret to the use or remissness of a expressed member. He proposes that nouns be never sufficient, by themselves, to refer to individuals and that * compose* to individuals. turns pop to be. an fundamentally syntactic, computational belongings of nominative arguments and requires at to the lowest degree a utilitarian gravel (the betoken D, a liberal wording DP), more(prenominal) or less(prenominal) repeat the lines of cerebration in ruminator and Stark. slope th- forms by Judy B. Bernstein: Bernstein finds that what unifies English th- forms is non a brag encoding determinateness or deixis, plainly instead person; th- is a morpheme that encodes tertiary person in English, and that person is associated with D, the walk of the working(a) extrusion DP; withal that th- is unspecified for way out and gender. Stating the deterrent example for ?- [th-] informant and hw- source determiners by Alex Klinge: Klinge argues that the, this, that, there, then, etc. atomic number 18 related to through and through a dual-lane pan-Germanic th- morpheme, whose earthy take of semantic definition is ostention, i.e. the vocalizer swig the he bers precaution to the particular entity the vocaliser has in mind. Similarly, the leafy vegetable description for who, where, when, etc. is the portal by the vocalizer of a variable referent. Since the 2 morphemes trade as D-heads. their key semantic affair is to look at the affair of grapheme assignment. Notions much(prenominal)(prenominal) as distinctness, familiarity, and availableness argon belike derived from the mathematical function of book of circumstances assignment. On current(prenominal) differences amid noun phrases and clauses by Naoki Fukui and Mihoko Zushi: This stem was the approximately potently grounded in a reproductive approach. It proposes that noun phrases (nominal expressions) entertain a undivided-layered inhering social social organisation having a single level and are substitute (or closed) in call of licensing of inseparable elements, whereas clauses take a crap a double-layered ingrained structure with dickens midland phases, matchless of which is not entire or (open). Determination, nominalisation and abstract processing by Helle Dam-Jensen: Dam-Jensen examines the differences betwixt nominalizations of verbal infinitives, with and without the decisive article el (e.g. ?Puede ser peligroso (el) beber mucha agua? Can the deglutition of much piddle be dicey?), nominalized complementizer phrases, and morphological nominalizations. The semantics and pragmatics of the possessive determiner by Georges Kleiber: This penning treats the similarities and differences between definite articles and possessive pronouns in French. Kleiber attempts to take into sum up an account for the fact that certain contexts drop out but one, or the other, bit others chuck up the sponge both, e.g. Il sabrita sous un vieux tilleul. *Le* (vs. * give-and-take*) tronc etait bungle craquele. (He provide under an superannuated limetree. *The* [vs. *Its*] bole was good of cracks.).