The Status of Determining Elements in Australian LanguagesFootnote^*

* I would like to express my warmest thanks to Jean-Christophe Verstraete for carefully reading previous drafts of this paper, and providing many insightful remarks. Our discussions on this topic have helped shape the argumentation enormously. I thank Kristin Davidse and the two anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments on earlier versions of this paper. I also want to thank Bert Cornillie, Hendrik De Smet, Rachel Nordlinger, Stef Spronck and Freek Van de Velde for sharing their thoughts and expertise on this topic. I thank Barry Blake, Joe Blythe, Margaret Carew, Greg Dickson, Katerina Forrester, Alice Gaby, John Giacon, Clair Hill, Dorothea Hoffmann, Katie Jepson, Bill McGregor, Felicity Meakins, Stephen Morey, Ilana Mushin, Rachel Nordlinger, Erich Round, Ruth Singer, Stef Spronck and Tasaku Tsunoda for information on their languages of expertise, and Doug Marmion, Adam Saulwick and Jane Simpson for sharing manuscripts. Any remaining problems or inaccuracies are of course my responsibility entirely.This work was supported by the Research Council of the University of Leuven under [grant GOA/12/007].

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