Some notes on adjectival articles in Albanian

In Albanian, class-2 adjectives are always preceded by an adjectival article, which agrees in gender, number, case and definiteness with the noun they modify. I will argue that the complex system of Albanian adjectival articles can be easily accounted for if we assume that there are two types of adjectival articles: those that have a full set of agreement features and those that do not. I will show that those that do not have a full set of features require adjacency to a noun inflected with the definite article, resorting to the last resort form “të” when this adjacency requirement fails. Adjacency will be shown to be a result of a cliticization process, necessary for the adjectival article to acquire a full set of agreement features.