Showing posts with label semantics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label semantics. Show all posts

Friday, September 19, 2014

The functional creep of "all"

Despite yesterday's post about their failure to consider the idea that all is a determinative, Buchstaller and Traugott (B&T) present a good deal of interesting data on the functional creep of the universal determinative all. These are nicely summarized in their Table 2 (p. 365).