Nouns and Noun Phrases - University of Macau Library

Pre-determiners 959
is due to the fact that the pre-determiners in (42) are built up of alle and a numeral
of a cardinality greater than 1; for the same reason, pre-determiner alle cannot
precede noun phrases headed by non-count nouns. Note further that the plural
examples with the proximate demonstrative deze ‘these’ are marked.
Table 4: Pre-determiner alle in noun phrases headed by a count noun
DEFINITE
ARTICLES
DEMONSTRATIVE
PRONOUNS
POSSESSIVE
PRONOUNS
SINGULAR [-NEUTER]/[+NEUTER] PLURAL [-NEUTER]/[+NEUTER]
*alle twee de man/het huis
all two the man/the house
*alle twee die man/dat huis
all two that man/that house
*alle twee deze man/dit huis
all two this man/this house
*alle twee m’n man/huis
all two my man/house
alle twee de mannen/huizen
all two the men/houses
alle twee die mannen/huizen
all two those men/houses
?
alle twee deze mannen/huizen
all two these men/houses
alle twee m’n mannen/huizen
all two my men/houses
As with bare al, it is not possible for pre-determiner alle to be combined with the
pluralia tantum in (43a) or with plurals which denote a conventionally fixed unit,
like Verenigde Staten ‘US’ in (43b).
(43) a. *alle + Num/allebei de hersenen/tropen
all + Num/all-both the brains/tropics
b. *alle + Num/allebei de Verenigde Staten
all + Num/all-both the United States
II. Restrictions on accompanying determiners and quantificational elements
This section investigates the restrictions that alle + Num and allebei pose on the
presence of determiners and quantificational elements. As in the case of bare al, the
syntax of the constituents following alle + Num or allebei largely mirrors that of the
same constituents lacking these quantifiers. For example, adjectival modification of
the noun is not affected by the presence of these quantifiers, as is illustrated in (44);
the attributive modifiers, of course, always carry an inflectional schwa, due to the
fact that noun phrases like these are plural.
(44) alle tien/allebei de/die/ ?? deze eenzame mensen
all/both the/those/these lonely people
A. Determiners
Table 4 has already shown that pre-determiner alle + Num can precede the definite
article de and the distal demonstrative die with equal ease; the relevant examples are
repeated here as (45a&b), and supplemented with the corresponding allebei ‘both’
examples. The proximate demonstrative deze in (45c), however, is rather marked in
a position linearly following the pre-determiner alle + Num and allebei, and
sequences like these are also relatively rare on the internet. In this regard predeterminer
alle differs from al, which is perfect to the left of the proximate
demonstrative, and instead resembles pre-determiner heel ‘all/whole’; cf. Section
7.2.2.1, sub I.