And Rosta wrote:
# [...] French, where #nouns cannot serve the purposes of noun phrases (a raw noun without #a determiner is ungrammatical). Can you spell this out a little more? Nowadays those French NPs would be analysed as DPs, determiner phrases.
How does that help? Raw determiners are no more grammatical than raw nouns.
[E]ndocentricity is so overwhelming prevalent and so much more restrictive than exocentricity that syntacticians take endocentricity to be an essential feature of natlang syntax.
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