ABSTRACT
The phenomenon of quantifier floating (QF) has been observed and described fairly extensively for English, l but not to the same extent for German.
The term 'quantifier' is borrowed from logic and is usually applied to a class of words that includes all, no, some, any and every, a11 of which express some quantification and occur as prenominal modifiers within noun phrases. Because of their distribution as prenominal (more exactly: preadjectival) modifiers of nouns as weIl as because of their delimiting quality, they have very much in common with determiners.2 It is very hard to draw the line between quantifiers and determiners, and a survey of the presentation of all, no and the other words mentioned in grammars and more specialised treatises of English reveals that they are treated as both quantifiers and determiners.
