• Determiner, also called determinative (abbreviated DET), is a term used in some models of grammatical description to describe a word or affix belonging...
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    English determiners (also known as determinatives): 354  are words – such as the, a, each, some, which, this, and numerals such as six – that are most...
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  • Possessive determiners are determiners which express possession. Some traditional grammars of English refer to them as possessive adjectives, though they...
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  • linguistics, a determiner is a class of words that includes articles and other words that function in the place of articles. Determiner may also refer...
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  • In linguistics, a determiner phrase (DP) is a type of phrase headed by a determiner such as many. Controversially, many approaches take a phrase like...
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  • constituents. In some theories of grammar, noun phrases with determiners are analyzed as having the determiner as the head of the phrase, see for instance Chomsky...
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  • In linguistics, determiner spreading (DS), also known as Multiple or Double Determiners is the appearance of more than one determiner associated with...
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    The Spanish language uses determiners in a similar way to English. The main differences are that Spanish determiners inflect for gender (masculine/feminine...
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    English articles (category Determiners by language)
    articles a and an. They are the two most common determiners. The definite article is the default determiner when the speaker believes that the listener knows...
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  • This is a list of English determiners. All cardinal numerals are also included.: 385  a / an the that / those this / these we / us you them (In some dialects...
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  • In French, articles and determiners are required on almost every common noun, much more so than in English. They are inflected to agree in gender (masculine...
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  • analyzed as determiners in phrases like we Brits and you tennis players.) Other linguists have taken a similar view, uniting pronouns and determiners into a...
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  • A determinative, also known as a taxogram or semagram, is an ideogram used to mark semantic categories of words in logographic scripts which helps to disambiguate...
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  • interrogative pronoun, not an interrogative determiner, because there is no noun or noun phrase present to serve as a determiner for. Consequently, in the question...
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  • classes" or "parts of speech" are commonly distinguished in English: nouns, determiners, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, and conjunctions...
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  • (possessive) form ourselves: the reflexive form There is also a distinct determiner we as in we humans aren't perfect, which some people consider to be just...
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  • your sisters, his boss. Here the possessive form serves as a possessive determiner. Without an accompanying noun, as in mine is red, I prefer yours, this...
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    or top thing in a group. 1 is the unit of counting or measurement, a determiner for singular nouns, and a gender-neutral pronoun. Historically, the representation...
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  • including the, this, my, etc., typically are classed separately, as determiners. Here are some examples: That's a funny idea. (attributive) That idea...
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    them such as determiners, quantifiers, conjunctions or adjectives. Noun phrases can be short, such as the man, composed only of a determiner and a noun...
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  • Articles are part of a broader category called determiners, which also include demonstratives, possessive determiners, and quantifiers. In linguistic interlinear...
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  • dictionary. No or NO may refer to: Yes and no, responses No, an English determiner in noun phrases No (kana) (の, ノ), a letter/syllable in Japanese script...
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  • complement: The only person there was you. Dependent determiner: I met your friend. Independent determiner: This is yours. Adjunct: You did it yourself. Modifier:...
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  • up each in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Each may refer to: each, a determiner and indefinite pronoun in the English language EACH, Educational Action...
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  • are Quantifiers. Quantifiers are a kind of determiner and occur in many constructions with other determiners, like articles: e.g., two dozen or more than...
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    Catalan (autonym: català, for pronunciation see below) is a Western Romance language. It is the official language of Andorra, and an official language...
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  • The determiner 'мы' refer to a referent that is close to both the speaker and the listener(s). It is exactly like the English language determiner this...
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    Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts Anglo-Norman Grammar Adverbs Articles and determiners Pronouns (personal) Verbs (conjugation morphology passé composé passé...
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  • become themselves." Dependent determiner: "I touched their car"; "them folks are helpful" (non-standard). Independent determiner: "This is theirs." Adjunct:...
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  • usually take the form: [DP Det. + of + [DP Det. + NP]] where the first determiner is a quantifier word, using a prepositional element to link it to the...
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