German adjectives in attributive position depend morphologically on two controllers: (I) they depend on their governing nouns for case, gender and number, and (II) their declension type (strong or weak) depends on the preceding determiner. For the dependency between the determiner and the adjective Mel'cuk (2006) proposes two solutions: government or agreement. The paper discusses these solutions and their implications on the correlations between morphological and syntactic dependency as proposed in Mel'cuk (2003). Additional material is shown, which demonstrates that the situation is more complex and calls for clear criteria for a part of speech 'determiner'.
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