226 Bożena Cetnarowska
The model of a Polish noun phrase advocated by Rutkowski & Progovac (2005) as well
as in Rutkowski (2007, 2009 , 2012 ) can account for the structure of DPs containing
several pre-nominal adjectives and a single classifying adjective. The noun phrase in
(9) is provided with the derivation given in (10), quoted after Rutkowski (2012: 124,
his diagram 5).(9) groźny stary brązowy pancernik mały
dangerous old brown armadillo small
‘a dangerous old brown dwarf armadillo’
(from Rutkowski 2012: 123, his Example 4)(10)D^0 αPDPAP α′α^0 αPAP α′α^0 αPAP α′α^0 nPn^0 NPAP N′N^0
mały
‘small’brązowy
‘brown’stary
‘old’groźny
‘dangerous’pancernik
‘armadillo’tiSome data undermining the validity of the model put forward by Rutkowski &
Progovac (2005) as well as by Rutkowski (2007, 2009 , 2012 ) are presented by Cetna-
rowska, Pysz & Trugman (2011a,b). For example, the head noun can be followed by
more than one classifying adjective, as in (11).