Adjectives at the left periphery as an indication of a DP in Serbo-Croatian

The paper proposes a determiner phrase (henceforth DP) analysis of nominal expressions in article-less Serbo-Croatian, arguing that, besides Cinque's (2010) indirect and direct modification adjectives, there is also a third type of modification at the left periphery. The acceptability of pseudo-oxymoronic phrases such as novi stari (narodnjački) hit 'a new/another old (folk) hit' indicates that the two antonymous adjectives should be analyzed at different functional projections. A closed set of analyzed adjectives, in their relevant interpretations, value d-features, always precede other adjectives, including comparatives and superlatives, as well cardinal/collective numbers, and, most importantly, they block left branch extraction. The mentioned empirical facts suggest that these adjectives might be positioned in the hypothesized determiner phrase.