Timeline for New Oxford American Dictionary describes "the" as an adjective
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| Apr 12, 2011 at 22:57 | comment | added | Kosmonaut | In my opinion, the important question is: if we group X, Y, and Z together, do we make accurate predictions? If we put any of those determiners and adjectives into the same category, we end up with many inaccurate predictions. So, basically I think that "the", "some", "that", etc. have a lot in common with each other and therefore belong together, as a reflection of their similarities. Anyway, I am not sure how you can categorize the syntactic category of a word without looking at how it functions in sentences. What else would you go by? | |
| Apr 12, 2011 at 22:11 | comment | added | Cerberus - Reinstate Monica | @Kosmonaut: Okay, I have no problems in principle with that terminology; it may very well be the most efficient model in many cases. However, I don't think the other terminology is entirely useless either. For one thing it is used by many in several different disciplines. I just feel that anyone choosing one accepted set of labels over another should not claim that his is the Right one and the other the Wrong one (not saying you were doing that). I was trying to show the relativity of a particular set of labels and their tests. | |
| Apr 12, 2011 at 21:53 | comment | added | Kosmonaut | All, each, etc. are not considered adjectives by linguists. They are known as quantifiers, which fall under the greater category of determiner. Definite and indefinite articles are also determiners. "The only" is considered a uniquitive determiner as well. So you are right in your observations — it's just these are also not considered adjectives. | |
| Apr 12, 2011 at 21:24 | history | edited | Cerberus - Reinstate Monica | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 30, 2011 at 15:49 | comment | added | avpaderno | The part about all is an interesting point. | |
| Jan 30, 2011 at 15:32 | history | answered | Cerberus - Reinstate Monica | CC BY-SA 2.5 |