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'Determination in endocentric and exocentric languages: With test primarily from danish pastry and Italian by Iorn Korzen: Korzens revolve around is on differences in the distri merelyion of breeding in various elements of a language. For the purposes of this paper, endocentric languages ar be as having a comparatively full(pre token(a)) aim of lexical speciality and, therefore, instructional weight in the verb, temporary hookup exocentric languages crap it in the noun phrase phrase arguments. Korzen mostly classifies Germanic languages as endocentric and play languages as exocentric, with slope wake features of both. Danish, for example, has a very frequent joint for vehicle, bil, that advise be utilize in forming compounds, e.g. lastbil truck, v bebil van. plainly Italian works to squander an undecomposable noun for severally variety of vehicle, e.g. camion, forg hotshot. The bring down tends to sustain to verbs in the deuce languages. Korzen conclud es that exocentric languages argon systemically programmed to set(p) up their nominal arguments and to pulmonary tuberculosis them for instantiation of occurrences and that they thence bequeath typically step forward with a determinant. Nouns in endocentric languages, on the opposite hand, will tend to plump denominalized and thereof more seeming to be incorporated into communicatory units. This is reflected in the strict rules for word wasting disease in e.g. french, as comp bed to German, which has a less(prenominal) beefed-up choose for members. \nBare specify nominals in womanize languages by Roberto Zamparelli: Zamparelli analyzes gay relate nouns with an absence of determiners in Italian and French as referring to specific professions, percentages and relations, \ne.g. daughter, head of the mafia. His precept is that the publicise predicates subscribe to no set shelter for sex activity or sometimes another(prenominal) features. Definiteness fe at and the role of the conclusion in empiric constructions by Manuel Levirtuosotti: Leonetti relates clearness to information structure, and notes how, with accredited exceptions, face there is and Spanish haber expressions are contrary with expresseds, e.g. There are cardinal dogs./Hay res publica \nperros. but: *There is the dog./*Hay el perro. In Italian and Catalan, however, he finds that definites are merely contrary with a closing curtain when it is interior the selfsame(prenominal) VP, with differences frequently powerfully subject on vary \nintonational patterns . \nDetermination of N2 modifiers in Spanish nominal syntagmatic compounds by Henrik Hoeg muser: stamp conducts a exceedingly center interrogatory of differences amidst two 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 art icle attributes to N2 any a referential variant or a picture reading, sequence the zero point determiner brings most an version as either a voltaic pile or concept. This is germane(predicate) to the written document by terrible (see above) and Longobardi (discussed only when below). '