DPs and Demonstratives

[Rankin, Robert L]

That would be my guess too.  Bob
 
> In the second instance the determiner bonds to the demonstrative as a
single phonological word.  Ye-akha, $e-akha, etc. so I've always asssumed
they are rather tightly bound syntactically.  The preposed DEMs are
definitely distinct words.
>
> Bob

Yes.  And DEM-DET often stands alone without any preceding noun, as a sort
of complex pronoun.  I wonder if the N DEM-DET pattern isn't an appositive
or resumptive pronoun relationship.