English and Vietnamese noun phrases Running head: english and vietnamese noun phrase



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Several of the books: definite

Several books: indefinite

 Pre determiners do not normally co-occur:   

*all half my salary is ungrammatical in English


  1. Post determiners: are group of words that follows central determiner but it must precede all adjective. They include quantifiers and cardinal, ordinal numbers.

Cardinal and ordinal number express specific quantity as in

The two children


his fourth birthday

Cardinal number often occurs without a preceding determiner as in “two books”

Quantifiers like many, little, few express non specific quantity.

My several books


those few people left

Quantifiers like much, little only occur with uncountable noun

The little money

 This applies also to general ordinals:   

our last race
your previous work
Unlike pre determiners, post determiners can co-occur, however there are only certain combinations acceptable.


  1. Ordinal numeral- indefinite quantifiers



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