Both Sergio and Karl have responded to Scott's question.

Sergio and Karl both have responded to Scott's question.

Sergio and Karl have both responded to Scott's question.

So now, I'd like to hear more about that grammar party that the happy
teachers and the smiling students enjoyed one and all. Lesson plans?












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On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 4:56 PM, Karl Hagen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> 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 <0000010ae2d1adf4-dmarc-
> [log in to unmask]>:
>
>> 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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