ABSTRACT
This article is based on a book I wrote in 1997: Collins COBUILD English Guides 10: Determiners and Quantifiers. It describes the problems encountered during the writing process, including the main one: are determiners a distinct word class? It provides some more evidence on topics which are mentioned elsewhere, such as ‘some’ vs ‘any’ (A1) and the use of‘less’ with count nouns (C3).
