DET: determiner
Definition
Determiners are words that modify nouns or noun phrases and express the reference of the noun phrase in context. That is, a determiner may indicate whether the noun is referring to a definite or indefinite element of a class, to a closer or more distant element, to an element belonging to a specified person or thing, to a particular number or quantity, etc.
Determiners under this definition include both articles and pro-adjectives (pronominal adjectives). An important point to note is that the traditional grammar of Armenian does not define determiners as a separate word class. Most determiners are traditionally called pronouns; that is, a UD-conformant annotation of Armenian must distinguish between substantive pronouns (UD tag PRON) and attributive pronouns (UD tag DET).
Also note that the DET tag includes (pronominal) quantifiers (words
like քանի, այսքան, մի քանի, բոլոր, ողջ “how many, this many, several, all, whole”), which the traditional grammar classifies
as a special subclass of pronouns.
Note that in Armenian nominal usually allows one DET modifier, but there are occasional cases of addeterminers, which appear outside the usual determiner, such as այս in այս բոլոր հարցերը “all these questions.” In such cases, both այս “these” and բոլոր “all” are given the POS DET.
Examples
- indefinite article: մի “a, an”
- possessive determiners: իմ, քո, նրա, մեր, ձեր, նրանց, իրենց “my, your, his/her/its, our, your, their”
- reflexive possessive determiners: իր, իրենց “one’s own, themselves”
- demonstrative determiners: այս as in Այս մեքենան ես երեկ տեսել եմ։ “I saw this car yesterday.”
- interrogative determiners: ո՞ր as in Ո՞ր մեքենան ես հավանում։ “Which car do you like?”
- relative determiners: որ as in Հետաքրքիր է՝ որ մեքենան ես հավանում։ “I wonder which car you like.”
- relative possessive determiners: ում, որի “whose”
- indefinite determiners: ոմն, ինչ-որ, ինչ-ինչ, մի քանի, ուրիշ, այլ, որոշ, որևէ, որևիցե, այսինչ, այնինչ, մի “someone, some (of one thing), some (of many thing), several, another, other, definite, one or another, one or another, such, such, some/several”
- emphatic determiners։ ինքը, ինքները “himself, themselves” as in Նախագահն ինքը եկավ դա տեսնելու։ “President himself came to see it.”
- total determiners: ամեն, ամեն մի, բոլոր, յուրաքանչյուր, ողջ, ամբողջ, համայն, ամենյան; “every, each, all, each, whole, all, whole, all”
- negative determiner: ոչ մի “no” as in Հիմա ոչ մի մեքենա չունենք։ “We have no cars available.”
DET in other languages: [bej] [bg] [bm] [cs] [cy] [da] [de] [el] [en] [es] [ess] [et] [fi] [fro] [fr] [ga] [grc] [hu] [hy] [it] [ja] [kk] [kpv] [ky] [myv] [no] [pcm] [pt] [qpm] [ru] [sla] [sl] [sv] [tr] [tt] [uk] [u] [urj] [xcl] [yue] [zh]