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