On the Categorial Status of such

Abstract

On the categorial status of such, there have been many attempts to capture its complicated and idiosyncratic semantic and syntactic properties. However, even in the influential grammar books, a word-class of such does appear to be out of accord with each other. In this paper, after investigating various properties of such and reviewing the main previous studies, I indicate the limitations of the previous analyses and furthermore attempt to establish a new categorization of such : the 'modifier' such as adjective, and the 'head' such as pronoun.