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[5]: 74 Others, such as The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (CGEL), make the opposite terminological choice. [1]: 354 And still others (e.g., The Grammar Book [6]) use determiner for both the category and the function. This article uses determiner for the category and determinative for the function in the noun phrase.
a; a few; a little; all; an; another; any; anybody; anyone; anything; anywhere; both; certain (also adjective) each; either; enough; every; everybody; everyone ...
Determiners are distinguished from pronouns by the presence of nouns. [6] Each went his own way. (Each is used as a pronoun, without an accompanying noun.) Each man went his own way. (Each is used as a determiner, accompanying the noun man.) Plural personal pronouns can act as determiners in certain constructions. [7] We linguists aren’t stupid.
Possessive determiners, as used in English and some other languages, imply the definite article.For example, my car implies the car of mine. (However, "This is the car I have" implies that it is the only car you have, whereas "This is my car" does not imply that to the same extent.
The Eskimo–Aleut languages, [4] and the Kiranti branch [5] of the Sino-Tibetan language family are particularly well known for their many contrasts. The demonstratives in Seri are compound forms based on the definite articles (themselves derived from verbs) and therefore incorporate the positional information of the articles (standing ...
In Albanian, either of these sentence constructions in (1) and (2) are grammatical to mean the good boy.In both of the sentences the determiner i marks the referent boy.It is noted that the determiner i is a morphological entity to mark the adjectival class rather than definiteness of the noun, as is found in Greek below.
A study shows that there is hardly any difference in correctly answered questions when students were divided into two groups that used either live lecture or video lecture. [5] But there were some differences in subjective evaluation: 48% of students preferred live lessons, 27% preferred video lessons and 25% stated ‘neutral’.
The position of the determiner, in contrast, is fixed; it has to introduce the phrase, e.g. *friendly an old dog, *old friendly a dog, etc. The fact that the determiner's position at the left-most periphery of the phrase is set is taken as an indication that it is the head of the phrase.