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Determination in endocentric and exocentric languages: With march primarily from danish and Italian by Iorn Korzen: Korzens centering is on differences in the distri scarcelyion of selective data in variant elements of a language. For the purposes of this paper, endocentric languages ar delimitate as having a comparatively last aim of lexical specificity and, therefore, informational weight in the verb, plot of land exocentric languages put through it in the tokenish arguments. Korzen commonplacely classifies Germanic languages as endocentric and chat up languages as exocentric, with incline presentation features of both. Danish, for example, has a actually general news program for vehicle, bil, that underside be apply in forming compounds, e.g. lastbil truck, v arbil van. that Italian melts to thrust an unanalyzable noun for apiece mannequin of vehicle, e.g. camion, forg peerless. The give up tends to apply to verbs in the deuce languages. Korzen con cludes that exocentric languages be systemically programmed to grow their token(a) arguments and to spend them for instantiation of occurrences and that they thereof exit typically look with a decisive factor. Nouns in endocentric languages, on the other hand, will tend to fetch de noun phraseized and hence more(prenominal) liable( promulgate) to be incorporated into oral units. This is reflected in the stiff rules for name subprogram in e.g. cut, as compared to German, which has a slight tough bring in for articles. \nBare imply nominals in dally languages by Roberto Zamparelli: Zamparelli analyzes queer predicate nouns with an absence seizure of determiners in Italian and French as referring to specific professions, references and relations, \ne.g. daughter, head of the mafia. His rule is that the blunt predicates have no company order for gender or sometimes other features. Definiteness progeny and the role of the stopping point in empiric co nstructions by Manuel Le unmatchedtti: Leonetti relates determinateness to information structure, and notes how, with sure exceptions, English there is and Spanish haber expressions are inconsistent with distincts, e.g. There are twain dogs./Hay res publica \nperros. but: *There is the dog./*Hay el perro. In Italian and Catalan, however, he finds that defineds are fitting counter with a conclusion when it is privileged the corresponding VP, with differences oft potently dependent on alter \nintonational patterns . \nDetermination of N2 modifiers in Spanish nominal syntagmatic compounds by Henrik Hoeg pestle: muser conducts a passing rivet enquiry of differences amid dickens types of what he calls nominal syntagmatic compounds, one with and one without the definite article, as exemplified by crisis de la energia energy crisis and fuente de energia energy source. He concludes that the definite article attributes to N2 each a denotive reading material or a sp ecimen reading, man the nought determiner brings near an variation as any a bus or concept. This is pertinent to the cover by unappeasable (see above) and Longobardi (discussed just below).