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This article examines the arguments made in the article “Determiners, Feline Marsupials, and the Category-Function Distinction: A Critique of ELT Grammars” by Brett Reynolds recently published in the TESL Canada Journal (2013). In our response, we demonstrate that the author’s arguments are problematic on both theoretical and empirical grounds. In particular, we show that, by the author’s own metrics, (a) the items in the so-called my set (i.e,. my, your, his/ her, etc.) should be determinatives rather than pronouns, and (b) even items that the author argues to be determinatives (i.e., all, many, few, little, etc.) cannot be classified as such if we apply the tests suggested by the author. We conclude our critical response by discussing some of the pedagogical implications of the author’s article. Cet article porte sur les arguments presentes dans l’article “Determiners, Feline Marsupials, and the Category-Function Distinction: A Critique of ELT Grammars” ecrit par Brett Reynolds et recemment publie dans la Revue TESL du Canada (2013). En reponse a cet article, nous demontrons que les arguments de l’auteur sont problematiques sur les plans tant theorique qu’empirique. Plus precisement, nous expliquons, en nous basant sur les parametres memes de l’auteur, que (a) les items de l’ensemble qu’il nomme ‘my set’ (c.-a-d., ma, ta, sa, etc.) devraient etre consideres des determinants plutot que des pronoms et que (b) meme des items que l’auteur decrit comme etant des determinants (c.-a-d., tout, plusieurs, peu, etc.) ne peuvent etre classes ainsi si l’on se base sur les tests qu’il propose. Nous concluons notre critique en discutant certaines incidences pedagogiques decoulant de l’article de l’auteur. This article is a critical analysis of “Determiners, Feline Marsupials, and the Category-Function Distinction: A Critique of ELT Grammars” by Reynolds (2013). We examine the author’s claims, and demonstrate that they are not supported by theoretical or empirical evidence. The author makes the following claims: 1. The information that can be found in ESL textbooks, dictionaries, and reference materials with regards to words such as the, this, some, many, either, each is confusing. The confusion is due to the fact that the abovementioned materials do not differentiate between the concept of a syntactic category (i.e., determinatives) and that of a syntactic function (i.e., specifier, head, modifier). Reynolds then claims that, first, words such as

On Determinatives and the Category-Function Distinction: A Reply to Brett Reynolds