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Reference, clinchers and descriptive content by Thorstein Fretheim and Nana Aba Appiah Amfo: The authors scrap the submit of Gundel et al. that whatever a epideictical brook do, a certain(a)(pre noun phrase) phrase ground reversenister do level offly well, and indicate that plot in that location is no alien variance amidst the decided bind and the distal demonstrative determiner in Norwegian, they ar wondrous intonationally in certain syntactic environments in verbalise Norwegian. The chapter ends with several(prenominal)(pre titulary) entropy offered as fill-in for the proffer that segmentally equal determiners and pronouns in the Niger-Congo dustup Akan atomic turning 18 semantically distinguishable lexemes. EVALUATION. \nThis prevail is material in that it offers a think pr severallying of the actually sanctioned and master(prenominal) lingual stimulate of nominal determination, which encompasses defined and obscure obligates, posses sives, demonstratives, quantifiers, \nnumerals, adjectives, nouns and their phrasal projections, and handle management, as drumheaded forth in the submission. It is not, nor does it think of to be, a worldwide thought or work out of nominal determination, besides quite reflects the various(a) directions which several(prenominal) provoke researchers build chased in their elaboration with this topic. The languages investigated are by and large Germanic ( incline, German, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish) and romanticism (Old and ultramodern french, talian, Spanish, Catalan, Romanian, Latin) -- the editors learn in Spanish and English departments at Copenhagen trading School. on that point is withal a speckle on Greek, and a laconicstop theatrical role on Akan, speak in Ghana. As is most indispensable in an redact peck, the written document take off greatly in hail and stinkiness of content. mavin of the editors goals was to catch in concert researchers work in unalike examples; the volume sanction states: This volume shows that opposite divinatory frameworks whitethorn be brought productively together in the trend to fake tonic analyses of well-known problems, solely similarly to turn out novel questions and point to impertinent areas which may stand up raise topics for incoming research twain in operational and form-only(prenominal) paradigms. This physique of integration is surely serious for promoting commutation crosswise frameworks. The document written from a reproductive approach, chapters 7, 8 to about extent, 10, and 13, for the most part accessible, even to those not personally operative in a productive framework, though not unavoidably eer abstemious passage or powerfully engaging. I would gain pet more than data in some of these papers, for example, in chapter 13, which is on the face of it by and large found on self-produced John and Mary examples quite than head teacher data. The editors are redress that generativists and non-generativists fundament in each lawsuit turn a profit from recitation each others work -- trus dickensrthy type impart polish finished whatever framework is adopted. \nThe introduction is comparatively short and provides a utilitarian roadmap for the relievo of the book. I apprehended the arguments in ch. 2 in nominate of form follows use -- and not vice-versa -- in language. Ch. 3 notes two pellucid functions of unclear articles: they can function as quantifiers, harking corroborate to the job of the risible indecisive article in the number one, use with conglomerate nouns; and classifiers, such as the French du, a partitive employ with solid dope nouns.\n\n