determiner
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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.
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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
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- 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".