Dear colleagues,<br><br>Can someone direct me to some phrase structure rules for English NP/QP that would actually produce the correct results for examples like the following?<br><br>all John's red books<br>John's few red book
<br>those few books<br>most of those books<br>all five of those books<br><br><br>This is for classroom use and not for any highly theoretical purpose -- I would just like some rules and lexical entries for quantifiers, however clunky, that would produce the right results for English. Most English syntax books on my shelf say nothing at all interesting about this. The closest thing I find to a systematic discussion of this is McCawley's
<span style="font-style: italic;">Syntactic phenomena of English</span>. But I am probably missing some key source, and would appreciate a pointer.<br><br>Thanks<br>Aaron Broadwell<br>