Adjective Syntax and (the absence of) noun raising in the DP1
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In the recent literature, see Cinque (1993) and subsequent work, the paradigm in (1) has been analyzed as follows. The APs are located in the specifier of various functional projections DP internally in all languages; in Italian the head noun moves from its base position through the head that hosts the first adjective in (1b) to a higher head in the functional domain above that adjective, see (2). What explains the word order variation in (1) is the lack vs. presence of noun raising across languages:
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تاریخ انتشار 2006