ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the use of the predeterminers al ‘all’ and heel ‘all/whole’, which are illustrated in the primeless examples of (1). These predeterminers will be discussed in relation to their “inflected” counterparts alle and hele in the nearly equivalent constructions in the primed examples. Note that we will use the notion of predeterminer al/heel descriptively, i.e. to express that the elements in question linearly precede a definite article or a possessive/demonstrative pronoun in the noun phrase; contrary to what is suggested in Van de Velde (2009: 253, 293–4), the term predeterminer has no theoretical significance and is certainly not intended to denote the members of a separate (functional) word class. The same applies to the use of the notion of postdeterminer heel, which we will use to refer to the inflected form of heel in (1b′).
