Questions, suggestions and issues to consider
1. In what way might scientific and pedagogic accounts differ with respect to the
notion of the ‘zero article’ (or ‘zero determiner’)?
2. Do you agree with the claim that determiners are not a separate class? Or do you
feel that the ‘prestidigitation’ involved (making inconvenient exceptions disappear)
is not valid?
3. What position should teachers adopt on the above-mentioned issues of
acceptability? Namely:
less
❏
with count nouns
the use of
❏
their to refer back to indefinite noun phrases
floating quantifiers placed in front of auxiliaries (
❏
they all are interested rather
than they are all interested)
Should they be descriptive or prescriptive on these matters (see A1, Approaches
to Grammar)? Note that the use of their to refer back to indefinite noun phrases
reinforces what was said in B2 about the similar use of they.
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