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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"CMU Serif"">Dear all — I’m wondering to what extent it makes sense to talk about determiners and determination as a grammatical process in languages in which the would-be determiners are syntactically
optional. In other words, is there such a thing as optional determination?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"CMU Serif"">Consider for example Russian:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="RU" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"CMU Serif"">ß ïðî÷èòàë ýòó çåëåíóþ êíèãó</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"CMU Serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:73.5pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"CMU Serif"">‘I read this green book’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="RU" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"CMU Serif"">ß ïðî÷èòàë çåëåíóþ êíèãó</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"CMU Serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:73.5pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"CMU Serif"">‘I read a/the green book<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"CMU Serif"">*</span><span lang="RU" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"CMU Serif"">ß ïðî÷èòàë çåëåíóþ ýòó êíèãó</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"CMU Serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"CMU Serif"">Argument positions can be filled by non-maximal projections* as in (2), unlike in Germanic and Romance, so that can’t be a basis for talking about determination in Russian. But what
about (3)? Despite Russian having fairly free word order, the order in (3) seems all but ungrammatical. But is it parsimonious to invoke determination to account for this ordering constraint? Has anybody looked into this, in Russian or any other language without
obligatory determination, or found any other kind of (strictly empirical) evidence of a categorical difference between maximal and non-maximal nominal projections in such languages?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"CMU Serif"">(*I’m looking at this in theory-neutral terms, so I’m disregarding here the DP analysis.)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"CMU Serif"">Thanks! – Juergen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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