Determining Determiner Sequencing A Syntactic Analysis for English B A Hockey

Most work on determiners has been concerned with purely semantic properties the occurrence of particular determiners in certain syntactic environments such as existential there sentences determiners as heads of phrases the DP hypoth esis Abney or quanti er scoping One question that has not been extensively discussed in the literature is how the various English determiners order with respect to each other For example the determiner sequences in the examples marked a of are acceptable while those in b are not acceptable These examples pose several interesting problems for an account of determiner sequencing In example we see that although many and several are often grouped together semanti cally Barwise and Cooper henceforth B C the determiner sequenc ing analysis must capture some di erence between the two to account for the fact that the can precede one but not the other Another interesting problem is presented by examples one might have expected all and every to be positioned similarly in a determiner sequence In we see that agreement also seems to be crucially involved in correctly ordering determiners