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AL
AL connects a few determiners like "all" and "both" to
following determiners.
+--------Sp-----+
+-----Jp--+ |
+-AL-+-D--+ |
| | | |
All the people are here
Words like "all" are unusual. They act like determiners in a
way; they must agree with the noun in number ("All" may take
mass or plural but not singular nouns: "*All the dog died").
But they may precede another determiner like "the" or "his".
Thus we allow them to a make a J+ connection to the noun,
treating it like a prepositional object. We also subscript J-
connectors on nouns, giving singular nouns "Js-" and
mass/plural nouns "Jp-"; "all" is then given "Jp+". This
prevents "*All the dog died".
A further problem here is that not just any determiner may be
used with "all": "*All some/many people are here". Thus we
require "all" to a make connection to the determiner as well;
determiners that can be used with it carry "{AL-} & D+".
Note that "all" can also be used with no additional determiner:
"All people are good". For this we give "all" an ordinary D+
connector.
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