'Syntactic Theory'''

Determiner

General characteristics:

• Determiners are functional words at the left of a noun phrase, i.e. they occur in environments such as __ student(s) called., Pat wondered about __ student(s).

Subclasses:

• Articles: a(n), the
• Demonstratives: this/these, that/those
• Quantifiers:
  • simple quantifiers: all, much, some, few, little
  • complex quantifiers: a couple, a few, a great deal of, lots of, not any, hardly any
• Numerals: two

Combinatorial properties of the subclasses:

• Quant Art: all the students
• Art Quant: the few students
• *Art Art: *that a student
• Quant Quant: only some few is possible

Reference:
Kaplan, Jeffrey P. (1989): English Grammar - Principles and Facts (2nd edition). New Jersey.

Categories: Glossary