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Eliding the noun in close apposition, or Greek polydefinites revisited

In this paper we propose a treatment of Greek polydefinites as an instance of close apposition, as in Burns the poet . We argue that like close appositives, Greek polydefinites consist of two DPs, the only difference being that one of them contains noun ellipsis. We propose that both polydefinites and close appositives involve a process of Referential-role identification, in the spirit of the proposal by Higginbotham (1985) for theta-role identification in cases of adjectival modification. We show that our proposal can shed light on the ordering freedom of polydefinites, their discourse properties, the kind of adjectives that can appear in the construction, as well as the lack of polyindefinites.