Re: THEORY: NATLANGS: Pro-Forms
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, May 27, 2006, 12:53 |
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Carsten Becker skrev:
> From: "Kit La Touche" <kit@...>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 9:01 PM
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>> (now i am wondering how to analyze "such" — normally
>> quantifiers go in spec-NP, but that's already filled by
>> the indefinite article. interesting.)
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> I'd say it's some kind of a demonstrative pronoun, except
> that it replaces an adjective ...
Aren't forms like _such_ called "determiners" nowadays?
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Determiner>
<http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsADeterminer.htm>
OTOH _such_ is not in the list of determiners on Wikipedia.
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Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch at melroch dot se
"Maybe" is a strange word. When mum or dad says it
it means "yes", but when my big brothers say it it
means "no"!
(Philip Jonsson jr, age 7)