determiner
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determiner (plural determiners)
- (grammar) A member of a class of words functioning in a noun phrase to identify or distinguish a referent without describing or modifying it. Examples of determiners include articles (a, the), demonstratives (this, those), cardinal numbers (three, fifty), and indefinite numerals (most, any, each).
- (grammar) A dependent function in a noun phrase marking the NP as definite or indefinite. This function is usually filled by words in the determinative class but may be filled by other elements such as a genitive pronoun.
- Something that determines, or helps someone to determine, something else.
- 1901: Azel Ames, The Mayflower and Her Log
- The "steel-yards" and "measures" were the only determiners of weight and quantity — as the hour-glass and sun dial were of time — possessed at first (so far as appears) by the passengers of the Pilgrim ship,
- 1901: Azel Ames, The Mayflower and Her Log
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- (word class) determinative
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class of words
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dependent function in a noun phrase
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[edit] References
determiner in The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language Huddleston & Pullum, 2002. CUP.
