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