Quantifiers of count nouns: no, a couple of, a few, several, many, few, fewer, fewest, many, more, the most, most, some, all, each/every, enough, sufficiently few
Quantifiers of mass nouns: no, a little, little, less, least, much, more, the most, some, all, enough, sufficiently little
Demonstratives: this that these those
Distributive: each/every
Allowed:
some of this land => quantifier + demonstrative
some of your land => quantifier + possessive
this your land => demonstrative + possessive
some of this your => quantifier + demonstrative + possessive
5 of your dogs => cardinal + demonstrative
5 of these dogs => cardinal + possessive
5 these your dogs => cardinal + demonstrative + possessive
All of these stacks can be followed by adjectives
I think that "other" is actually a Demonstrative. Certainly it seems to behave in a similar manner - it basically says "not this/these, the ones not yet mentioned". It's slightly unusual, in that it can co-occur with "that" or "those". But other than that, it behaves much the same.
Count nouns |
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Mass nouns |
singular |
plural |
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no |
no |
no |
some |
some |
some |
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all |
all |
any |
any |
any |
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few |
little |
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fewer |
less |
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fewest |
least |
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many |
much |
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more |
more |
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the most |
the most |
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most |
most |
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enough |
enough |
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each/every |
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a little |
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a few |
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Articles: a, an, the
Demonstratives: this, that, these, those, which, etc.
Quantifiers: all, few, many, several, some, every, each, any, no, etc.
Cardinal Numbers: one, two, fifty, etc.
Possessive determiners (also known as "possessive adjectives" and "possessive pronouns"): my, your, his, etc.
Personal Determiners: we teachers, you guys
Universal Determiners: all, both
Distributive Determiners: each, every
Existential Determiners: some, any
Disjunctive Determiners: either, neither
Negative Determiners: no
Alternative-additive Determiners: another
Positive Paucal Determiners: a few, a little, several...
Pre-determiners: a type of determiner that can come before a noun with no interceding preposition. Examples: all, both, half.
Degree Determiners: many, much, few, little...
Sufficiency Determiners: enough, sufficient
Interrogative and Relative Determiners: which, what, whichever, whatever
I suspect PF will need most of these. I'd decided it didn't have Articles, but I should probably be flexible on that.
These are mostly little (<=2 syllable) words, with little or no derivational history. I just need to decide on them.
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