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5. Concluding remarks
On the position of the OE quantifier eall and PDE all 123
It has been shown in this paper, through a study of the corpus of Ælfric’s Catholic
Homilies, that the OE quantifier eall shares the following distributional properties
with the PDE quantifier all: (i) eall can float from a nominative, or subject, noun
phrase it modifies; (ii) eall can float from an accusative, or object, noun phrase,
that is followed by a predicative complement; and (iii) the ‘pronoun-quantifier’
order is more frequent than the ‘quantifier-pronoun’ order. It was also argued that
the quantifier eall is base-generated as the head of a QP and selects an NP as its
complement. The ‘full-NP-quantifier’ order can be derived by adjoining the NP to
the QP. However, this operation is not applied to an NP in the argument position,
due to the ban on adjunction to arguments. Unlike NPs, pronouns are adjoined
to the head of a QP, yielding the ‘pronoun-quantifier’ order. The head-adjunction
may be driven by the clitic property of pronouns. If so, there remains a question:
why is the ‘quantifier-pronoun’ order observed though it is less frequent than the
‘pronoun-quantifier’ order? This is left open for future research.
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