On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 00:23:43 +0100, "John Dean"
<john-dean@frag.lineone.net> said:
> credoquaabsurdum wrote:
[...]
> > I'm also not quite clear on exactly what a determiner is, and well,
> > neither are many professional grammarians.
Picture a PhD aspirant at his wits end trying to come up
with a topic for his dissertation. Finally in desperation
he thinks up a bunch of new names for old concepts and
manages to delude his committee into thinking the resulting
dissertation is original and significant.
Thus is born the determiner, a new way to talk about certain
kinds of adjectives that had quite satisfactory names to
begin with.
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