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(5) a. Mary hates them all.
b. I like them all.
c. I saw them all yesterday.
On the position of the OE quantifier eall and PDE all 111
Third, in contrast to sentences like (4), if a predicative complement follows the
quantifier, the sentence will be grammatical. This is illustrated in (6).
(6) a. I gave the kids all some candy to keep them quiet.
b. Mom found the boys all so dirty when she got home, that she made them
(all) take a bath.
c. Cinderella’s fairy godmother turned the pumpkins all into handsome coaches.
d. Hang your coats all up on hangers. (Maling 1976: 715)
The distribution of the PDE floating quantifier can be summarized in (7).
(7) In PDE the quantifier all can float when
i. the noun phrase it modifies is a subject; or
ii. the noun phrase it modifies is an object that is followed by a predicative
complement. (cf. Bowers 2001)
3. OE quantifier eall
This section provides examples of the quantifier eall in OE. The examples were retrieved
from the parsed corpus of Ælfric’s Catholic Homilies, 4 the First and Second
series, which is part of The York-Toronto-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English
Prose (YCOE; Taylor et al. 2003). 5 Following the YCOE tag system and searching
the corpus for nominative and accusative eall, I have found 420 examples with
nominative eall and 451 examples with accusative eall. 6
3.1 Eall with full NP
Let us first take examples with nominative eall and a full NP it modifies. Among
the 420 examples of nominative eall, 237 contain full NPs. Some examples are
4. The present study is limited to the data collected from Ælfric’s Catholic Homilies in order to
exclude some possible effects of the difference in the genre, author, and period on the distributional
properties of the quantifier.
5. The editions of Ælfric’s Catholic Homilies included in the YCOE are Clemoes (1997) for
the first series and Godden (1979) for the second series. In citing examples from the YCOE,
Thorpe’s (1844–1846) PDE translations are added to them except for example (9c).
6. The tags used for retrieval are ‘Q^N’ for nominative eall and ‘Q^A’ for accusative eall.
‘Q’ with no case was not searched since it is difficult to distinguish a floating quantifier from
adverbial use.