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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
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The food is a little salty.

Is "a" a determiner in "a little salty"?
  

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Anonymous Is "a" a determiner in "a little salty"? It depends on if you are a lumper or a splitter. " Traditional texts lumped them all together with adjectives.

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  • Anonymous Is "a" a determiner in "a little salty"?
  • It depends on if you are a lumper or a splitter.
  • " Traditional texts lumped them all together with adjectives.
  • So it all depends on your philosophy of fine categories (the splitters) or coarse categories ( the lumpers).
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AnonymousIs "a" a determiner in "a little salty"?
It depends on if you are a lumper or a splitter.

Some references lump quantifiers, articles, and determiners under one category: "determiner."
Traditional texts lumped them all together with adjectives.

So it all depends on your philosophy of fine categories (the splitters) or coarse cat
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