10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PREDETERMINER»
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predeterminer in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
predeterminer and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 2002: Selected ...
4.2 Predeterminers An interesting test case for the claims in the previous
paragraph are the nominals with a predeterminer, as in al hun paarden 'all their
horses' and (ge)heel de stad 'whole the town' . For the analysis of such NPs I
assume a ...
F.PL all.M.SG Predeterminer tout is however incompatible with the generic use of
the definite article. Thus, while the direct object in (25a) is ambiguous between a
definite and generic interpretation, as shown in the translation, the one in (25b) ...
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Understanding English Grammar: A Linguistic Introduction
Predeterminer. Modification. In this book, we are making a distinction between
determined noun phrases (DPs), and undetermined noun phrases (NPs). This is
an important syntactic distinction for English, since these two phrasal categories ...
Thomas E. Payne, Thomas Edward Payne, 2010
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The Expression of Negation
The function of all - head or predeterminer? The most influential of these factors
is probably the function of all as NP head or predeterminer. Notice that we
classified all in constructions like All of the boys as a predeterminer, as shown
below: ...
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Corpus-based Research Into Language: In Honour of Jan Aarts
No distinction is made between intensifying and identifying uses of such. Sinclair
et al. (1990: 60) have a similar approach. No distinction is made between rather,
quite, such and what in predeterminer position: all are called 'predeterminers'.
Nelleke Oostdijk, Pieter de Haan, 1994
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Constraint Grammar: A Language-independent System for ...
For instance, in all the other people, all is a predeterminer, the is a central
determiner, and other is a postdetermin- er. For further details, see Quirk et al. (
1985). A predeterminer is immediately followed by a central determiner,
postdeter- miner, ...
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A Synopsis of English Syntax
These are attributive to primary predeterminer attributives. 2a Order. Secondary
predeterminer attributives immediately precede primary predeterminer
attributives. 2b Selection bl Conditioners. Occurrence of primary predeterminer
attributives.
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Oxford Modern English Grammar
Noun phrases functioning as Predeterminer in noun phrases Examples of noun
phrases functioning as Predeterminer are socalled fractions, such as half a
quarter, one-sixth, and a number of so-called multipliers, such as two times, three
...
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Subjectification, Intersubjectification and Grammaticalization
The predeterminer thus fulfils a function similar to that of whole. In my opinion,
whole would best be analysed as a secondary determiner in example (30) if all
did not fill the predeterminer slot. However, adding all to the noun phrase triggers
an ...
Kristin Davidse, Lieven Vandelanotte, Hubert Cuyckens, 2010
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Corpus Linguistics and the Automatic Analysis of English
(56) three nights (57) the first case (58) several industrialized countries Unlike
predeterminer and central determiner items, some postdetermin- ers can co-
occur. For example, (59) the first few weeks (60) the last two motions As we
observed ...
