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Further evidence for the DP theory comes from genitive constructions. Certain possessive DPs, such as *two women's key are ungrammatical (Bernstein et al., 1999).

We can see evidence of DPs in American Sign Language (ASL). There are some similarities between the DPs in ASL and spoken English. Both make the distinction between definite and indefinite DPs; in ASL, determiners and agreement features are argued to occupy the same syntactic position; and there is also movement of the possessor DP in the possessive form (MacLaughlin, 1997)

MacLaughlin, D. (1997). The structure of determiner phrases: Evidence from american sign language. ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing). Bernstein, J. B., Cowart, W., & McDaniel, D. (1999). Bare singular effects in genitive constructions. Linguistic Inquiry, 30(3), 493-502. doi:10.1162/002438999554174