Boskovic (2008) shows a number of wide-ranging grammatical phenomena correlate with the presence or absence of articles; see the list in (1) below. These generalizations, which are syntactic and semantic in nature, indicate that there is a fundamental difference in the traditional noun phrase (TNP) of languages with and languages without articles that cannot be reduced to phonology (overt vs. null articles). Furthermore, Boskovic shows the generalizations can be explained if languages that lack articles lack DP altogether. (For other ‘no DP’ analyses of at least some such languages, see Fukui 1988, Corver 1992, Zlatic 1997, Chierchia 1998, Cheng & Sybesma 1999, Willim 2000, Baker 2003.)
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