A little money
A little money
Can I name A little a 'fused determiner' in the noun phrase above?
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I think along this line: the head of the phrase "money" is an uncountable noun hence the determiner "A" disagrees grammatically with that noun. My understanding is that A little cannot be parsed separately as two determiners "A" and "little" but as a one determiner "A little" meaning some.
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tkacka15 Can I name A little a 'fused determiner' in the noun phrase above? "Fused" means that two or more words are collapsed into one. It is used in context of content clauses: He liked what they gave him.
- tkacka15 Can I name A little a 'fused determiner' in the noun phrase above?
- "Fused" means that two or more words are collapsed into one.
- It is used in context of content clauses: He liked what they gave him.
- (What = "the thing that") He wanted to go where his brother had gone ten years ago.
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tkacka15Can I name A little a 'fused determiner' in the noun phrase above?
"Fused" means that two or more words are collapsed into one. It is used in context of content clauses:
He liked what they gave him. (What = "the thing that")
He wanted to go where his brother had gone ten years ago. (Where = "to the place that")
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0tkacka15Can I name A little a 'fused determiner' in the noun phrase above?
No. I don't think there's a special word for a multi-word determiner, but if there were, it wouldn't be a "fused" construction, which is always one word, as Alphecca Stars has already noted. I suspect you could call it a compound determiner if you really wanted a special name for i
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