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2-4. Functional Categories 1-2 (De)

Functional categories express grammatical properties such as person, number, gender, and case. They include determiners, pronouns, and quantifiers. Determiners introduce referring expressions and include articles like "the" and demonstratives like "this" and "that". Pronouns stand in place of nouns and inflect for case. Quantifiers introduce quantificational properties and include words like "some", "all", and "many".

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2-4. Functional Categories 1-2 (De)

Functional categories express grammatical properties such as person, number, gender, and case. They include determiners, pronouns, and quantifiers. Determiners introduce referring expressions and include articles like "the" and demonstratives like "this" and "that". Pronouns stand in place of nouns and inflect for case. Quantifiers introduce quantificational properties and include words like "some", "all", and "many".

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Functional category expresses grammatical

properties such as person, number, gender, case.

Functional categories 2.4


Functional
Antonyms Test
• loss vs. gain, raise vs. fall, tall vs. short, early vs.
late, inside vs. outside
categories • Do you want to smoke?
• I said that I was tired.

Word Categories 2
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Determiner:
Article: the
Determiners 2.5 Demonstrative determiner: this, that,
Determiners these, those
Pronouns Quantifiers
and Quantifier: some, all, no, any, each,
Personal pronouns Quantifiers every, most, much, many

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Quantifiers are used to introduce


quantificational properties
• Referential determiners are used to
introduce referring expressions. • Most good comedians tell some bad jokes.
16. 17.
• Many students have no money.
Determiners • The village store is closed. Quantifier
• This appalling behavior has got to stop.
• Every true Scotsman hates all Englishmen.
• That dog of yours is crazy.
• Each exercise contains several examples.

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• Traditional grammars posit a category of
pronoun to denote 'stand in place of' or
Coffee Break 'refer back to' noun expressions.

for 2.6 Pronoun • John has a red car and Jim has a blue one.
Functionals • I'll take the green apples if you haven't got
any red ones.

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• All guests are welcome.


All are welcome. • I prefer this tie.
22. 23. I prefer this.
Prenominal • Many miners died in the accident.
Pronominal
quantifier Many died in the accident. Determiner • I haven't read that book.
I haven't read that.

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• Personal pronouns inflect for nominative,


accusative and genitive case
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Pronoun [We republicans] don’t trust [you democrats]
24. Personal • John snores/He snores
(Unitary [We ] don’t trust [you ] pronoun • Find John/ Find him
• Look at John’s trousers!
analysis)
Look at his trousers!

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