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This work has its roots in a nanosyntax weblab held in November and December of 2012. Special thanks to Michal Starke, Sebastian Bican‐Miclescu, and Bartosz Wiland for discussion of the data. We are grateful to the members of GIST for comments on a previous version of this talk (May 7, 2014). Thanks to Lena Baunaz and Frédérique Berthelot for help with French. We are also grateful to the audience of IGG 41 in Perugia for questions and comments. Special thanks to our anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments and suggestions, which helped to improve this paper in various ways. Abbreviations include: dem.pro = pronominal demonstrative, dem.adn = adnominal demonstrative, n(eut) = neuter, f(em) = feminine, m(asc) = masculine, cm = common gender, abs = absolutive, sg = singular, pl = plural, du = dual, an = animate, inan = inanimate, IE = Indo‐European, coll. = colloquial. For the languages discussed we provide the family in brackets, e.g. Ewe [Niger‐Congo]. This work is funded by BOF grant 01D30311 awarded by Ghent University (Eric Lander) and FWO project 2009‐Odysseus‐Haegeman‐G091409 (Liliane Haegeman and Eric Lander)