This paper examines the status of nominal projections in Bangla from the point of view of Bošković's (2008Bošković's ( , 2009) generalizations on np vs. dp languages, and argues that although Bangla is an article-less language, it is not an np language and projects a range of functional categories above np, including a dp level. Such a conclusion is shown to have an important consequence for cross-linguistic assumptions relating to the phasal architecture of nominal projections, building on work on nominal-internal phases initiated in Simpson and Syed (2016): it is suggested that the extended projection of noun phrases may contain two separate phases, in a way that resembles the occurrence of two phasal levels within clauses.

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