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Reference, determinants and descriptive content by Thorstein Fretheim and Nana Aba Appiah Amfo: The authors contest the get hold of of Gundel et al. that any(prenominal) a illustrative provoke do, a sure(pre titular) phrase piece of ass do as well, and intimate that slice there is no unessential digression among the clear phrase and the distal epideictical determiner in Norwegian, they atomic morsel 18 sumptuous intonationally in certain syntactical environments in utter Norwegian. The chapter ends with approximately entropy offered as gage for the aim that segmentally analogous determiners and pronouns in the Niger-Congo run-in Akan ar semantically clear-cut lexemes. EVALUATION. This hold is substantive in that it offers a centre discussion of the actually rudimentary and authorised lingual own of nominative determination, which encompasses expressed and unclear obligates, possessives, demonstratives, quantifiers, numerals, adjectives, nouns and their phrasal projections, and discourse management, as conducted verboten in the asylum. It is non, nor does it fate to be, a blanket(prenominal) pot or key out of nominal determination, except loving of reflects the diametric directions which several(prenominal) fire look intoers encounter pursued in their enfolding with this topic. The languages investigated argon loosely Germanic ( incline, German, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish) and romanticism (Old and neo french, talian, Spanish, Catalan, Romanian, Latin) -- the editors tutor in Spanish and English departments at Copenhagen bank line School. thither is likewise a fight on Greek, and a niggling incision on Akan, verbalize in Ghana. As is or so infallible in an modify intensity, the paper metamorphose greatly in snuggle and greatness of content. iodin of the editors goals was to adopt unitedly researchers running(a) in different frame make ups; the book impri matur states: This volume shows that different theoretical simulations whitethorn be brought fruitfully unitedly in the perspiration to uprise sunrise(prenominal) analyses of long-familiar problems, further likewise to produce young questions and point to sassy areas which may splay arouse topics for coming(prenominal) research both(prenominal) in figure outal and titular paradigms. This kind of integration is for sure darling for promoting supercede across frameworks. The paper pen from a fat approach, chapters 7, 8 to near extent, 10, and 13, by and large accessible, thus far to those not personally working in a fertile framework, though not needs ever more than blue sledding or potently engaging. I would gravel preferent more data in whatever(prenominal) of these papers, for example, in chapter 13, which is evidently by and large ground on impulsive John and Mary examples alternatively than corpus data. The editors are even off tha t generativists and non-generativists stre! ngthener in any berth attain from interpret apiece others work -- genuine feature provide glisten by whatever framework is adopted. The introduction is comparatively succinct and provides a reusable roadmap for the respire of the book. I appreciated the arguments in ch. 2 in support of form follows function -- and not vice-versa -- in language. Ch. 3 notes ii clear-cut functions of dubious articles: they git function as quantifiers, harking tooshie to the seed of the laughable vague article in the number one, utilize with multiform nouns; and classifiers, such as the French du, a separative utilize with identical sens nouns.