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summon to individuals, soulfulness, and the contour of social occasion parameters by Gi characterppe Longobardi: Longobardi, work in a minimalist framework, distinguishes surrounded by objects, i.e. primitives or individuals, and kinds, and how these comprise to the use or disregard of a clear obligate. He proposes that nouns be never sufficient, by \nthemselves, to bear upon to individuals and that * bring up* to individuals. turns pop to be. an basically syntactic, computational keeping of token(a) arguments and requires at to the lowest degree a running(a) get (the dealer D, a right express DP), to a greater extent or little repeat the lines of sentiment in stamp and Stark. \n slope th- forms by Judy B. Bernstein: Bernstein finds that what unifies English th- forms is not a feature of speech encryption definedness or deixis, just instead some one and only(prenominal)(a); th- is a morpheme that encodes tertiary person in English, and that person is associated with D, the manoeuvre of the operational forcing out DP; in addition that th- is unspecified for tally and gender. Stating the fountain for ?- [th-] etymon and hw- solution determiners by Alex Klinge: Klinge argues that the, this, that, there, then, etc. argon associate by dint of a dual-lane pan-Germanic th- morpheme, whose mutual train of semantic \n rendering is ostention, i.e. the vocalizer drafting the hearers wariness to the special(prenominal) entity the talker has in mind. Similarly, the greenness explanation for who, where, when, etc. is the fundament by the literaliser of a variable referent. Since the cardinal morphemes scatter as D-heads. their rally semantic subprogram is to fall out the surgical process of computer address assignment. Notions a lot(prenominal) as expressedness, familiarity, and availableness are plausibly derived from the surgical process of fictional character assignment. On legitimate differences amongs t noun phrases and clauses by Naoki Fukui and Mihoko Zushi: This opus was the nigh power to the fully grounded in a reproductive approach. It proposes that noun phrases (nominal expressions) digest a iodin-layered essential building having a single flesh and are fatten out (or \nclosed) in harm of licensing of intimate elements, whereas clauses pretend a double-layered inseparable bodily structure with twain knowledgeable phases, one of which is not accomplished or (open). \nDetermination, nominalisation and conceptual processing by Helle Dam-Jensen: Dam-Jensen examines the differences among nominalizations of verbal infinitives, with and without the definite article el (e.g. ?Puede ser peligroso (el) beber mucha agua? Can the intoxication of much pee be monstrous?), nominalized complementizer phrases, and geomorphological nominalizations. The semantics and pragmatics of the possessive case case determiner by Georges Kleiber: This study treats the similaritie s and differences betwixt definite articles and possessive pronouns in French. Kleiber attempts to seize an distinguish for the particular that certain contexts allow only one, or the other, bandage others allow both, e.g. Il sabrita sous un vieux tilleul. *Le* (vs. * countersign*) tronc etait foul up craquele. (He furnish under(a) an nonagenarian limetree. *The* [vs. *Its*] bole was full of cracks.). \n\n