There's a fair bit of disagreement on that. It's been called a pronoun
(the traditional label), a determiner, a predeterminer, and an adverbial
quantifier that I'm aware of, and I'm sure there are some analyses I'm
unaware of. How you analyze it will depend a lot on your theoretical
assumptions.
Like Sergio, I see its form as a determiner (or determinative if you use
the CGEL terminology). I'm also inclined to see it as _not_ a
constituent of the subject, even though semantically it quantifies it.
Notice that if we add an auxiliary, "all" naturally sits in the
post-auxiliary position:
The happy teachers and their smiling students have all enjoyed the
grammar party.
For that reason, I'd say it functions as a quantifier, as an adjunct
within the VP. That said, there are a number of different analyses, in
both the generative and the GPSH/HPSG traditions which do take it as a
constituent of the subject, at least when it's not sitting in
post-auxiliary position, but it remains an adjunct (albeit of the
subject) pretty much any way you slice the analysis.
Regards,
Karl
On 1/11/2018 1:07 PM, Sergio Pizziconi wrote:
> Hello Scott,
> I would say it is a determiner.
> If it were in a more canonical position, but clearly less probable
> (statistically speaking), such as "All the happy teachers and all
> their smiling students....", its nature of determiner would be apparent.
> Sergio Pizziconi
>
> 2018-01-11 21:51 GMT+01:00 Scott Woods
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> Hi All,
>
> In the following sentence <The happy teachers and their smiling
> students all enjoyed the grammar party> how would you characterize
> the word <all>?
>
> What is its function and what would you call it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Scott Woods
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