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Also known as determinative, adnominal adjective, attributive, pre-noun, unconjugated adjective, DET, determinant, determinante (grammar)

In natural language, a determiner, also called a determinative (abbreviated ''''), is a word or affix that combines with a noun to express its reference. Examples in English include articles (the and a/an), demonstratives (this, that), possessive determiners (my, their), and quantifiers (many, both''). Not all languages have determiners, and not all systems of grammatical description recognize them as a distinct category.

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  • Description
  • Syntactic order
  • Determiners vs. pronouns
  • As a functional head
  • Types
  • Articles
  • Demonstratives
  • Possessive determiners
  • Quantifiers
  • Distributive determiners
  • Interrogative determiners
  • Objections to "determiner" as a universal category
  • See also
  • References
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In natural language, a determiner, also called a determinative (abbreviated ''''), is a word or affix that combines with a noun to express its reference. Examples in English include articles (the and a/an), demonstratives (this, that), possessive determiners (my, their), and quantifiers (many, both''). Not all languages have determiners, and not all systems of grammatical description recognize them as a distinct category.

==Description== The linguistics term "determiner" was coined by Leonard Bloomfield in 1933. Bloomfield observed that in English, nouns often require a qualifying word, such as an article or adjective. He proposed that such words belong to a distinct class which he called "determiners".

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