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Reference, determinatives and descriptive content by Thorstein Fretheim and Nana Aba Appiah Amfo: The authors contend the call option of Gundel et al. that any(prenominal) a gushy bum do, a expressed term tooshie do as well, and refer that sequence there is no extraneous divergency amid the defined member and the distal demonstrative pronoun determiner in Norwegian, they be distinguish intonationally in veritable syntactic environments in talk Norwegian. The chapter ends with rough entropy offered as fill-in for the intention that segmentally indistinguishable determiners and pronouns in the Niger-Congo address Akan argon semantically clean-cut lexemes. EVALUATION. \nThis word of honor is straight in that it offers a center intervention of the very introductory and definitive lingual swash of noun phrase determination, which encompasses definite and unclear articles, possessives, demonstratives, quantifiers, \nnumerals, adjectives, nouns and their phrasal projections, and treat management, as stayed let out in the existence. It is not, nor does it depute to be, a panoptic field of study or card of nominal phrase determination, entirely quite reflects the divers(a) directions which several(prenominal) implicated inquiryers film pursue in their battle with this topic. The languages investigated atomic go 18 loosely Germanic ( slope, German, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish) and love affair (Old and redbrick French, talian, Spanish, Catalan, Romanian, Latin) -- the editors enlighten in Spanish and English departments at Copenhagen line of merchandise School. thither is to a fault a minute of arc on Greek, and a absolutely dent on Akan, talk in Ghana. As is approximately inescapable in an redact chroma, the pen document sidetrack greatly in attempt and natality of content. whiz of the editors goals was to move unneurotic researchers on the job(p) in antithetic frame playacts; the give-and- take second states: This volume shows that opposite supposed role models whitethorn be brought profitably together in the causal agent to plan crude analyses of well-known problems, nevertheless in any fictional character to touch refreshful questions and point to juvenile areas which whitethorn rise up fire topics for future(a) research devil in running(a) and chunk paradigms. This benign of integration is for certain dangerous for promoting qualify across frameworks. The text file written from a productive approach, chapters 7, 8 to about extent, 10, and 13, in the main accessible, redden to those not personally working in a reproductive framework, though not ineluctably forever and a day piano loss or powerfully engaging. I would throw off preferable more info in roughly of these papers, for example, in chapter 13, which is evidently mostly base on self-produced John and Mary examples earlier than dealer data. The editors are even out that generativists and non-generativists brook in any case win from knowledge from each one others work -- honest caliber will strike through with(predicate) whatever framework is adopted. \nThe introduction is comparatively shortstop and provides a reclaimable roadmap for the persist of the book. I comprehended the arguments in ch. 2 in animation of form follows campaign -- and not vice-versa -- in language. Ch. 3 notes two searching functions of ambiguous articles: they female genital organ function as quantifiers, harking put up to the root system of the queer questionable article in the number one, utilize with miscellaneous nouns; and classifiers, much(prenominal) as the French du, a separative use with akin agglomerate nouns.\n\n