Quantification in German∗

are rigidly ordered, with determiners preceding adjectives preceding nouns pre-ceding their complements and clausal adjuncts.1 Many (D-)quantifier words in German can cooccur with a (primarily definite) determiner. In this case, they (immediately) follow the determiner. In no case can such a quantifier word be preceded by an adjective in its phrase (but see §2.1.3 for peculiarities of numeral expressions). (1) *(die) the meisten most Romane novels (2) (die) the viele(n) man