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.
In Portuguese corpora, numerals are not tagged as DET. In a noun phrase such as “os cinco mortos” (the five dead [people]), only “os” is tagged as DET.
Examples
- articles (a closed class indicating definiteness, specificity or givenness): o, a, os, as
- possessive determiners: meu, teu, seu, minha, meus, dele, nosso
- demonstrative determiners: este, isto, esta, aquele,
- interrogative determiners: qual
- relative determiners: que
- quantity/quantifier determiners: nenhum, todos.
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]