Determining Determiner Sequencing: A Syntactic Analysis for English

Previous work on English determiners has primarily concentrated on their semantics or scoping properties rather than their complex ordering behavior. The little work that has been done on determiner ordering generally splits determiners into three subcategories. However , this small number of categories does not capture the ner distinctions necessary to correctly order deter-miners. This paper presents a syntactic account of de-terminer sequencing based on eight independently iden-tiied semantic features. Complex determiners, such as genitives, partitives, and determiner modifying adver-bials, are also presented.