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.
An important point to note is that the traditional grammar of Ukrainian does not define determiners as a separate word class. Ukrainian does not have articles. Most determiners are traditionally called pronouns; that is, an UD-conformant annotation of Ukrainian must distinguish between substantive pronouns (UD tag PRON) and attributive pronouns (UD tag DET).
Examples
- possessive determiners: мій, твій, його, її, наш, ваш, їх “my, your, his, her, our, your, their”
- reflexive possessive determiner: свій “one’s own”
- demonstrative determiners: той, цей as in Цю машину я бачила вчора. “I saw this car yesterday.”
- interrogative determiners: котрий as in Котра машина тобі подобається? “Which car do you like?”
- relative determiners: котрий as in Мені цікаво, котра машина тобі подобається. “I wonder which car you like.”
- relative possessive determiner: чий “whose”
- indefinite determiners: деякий, якийсь
- total determiners: кожен, всякий
- negative determiners: жоден, ніякий as in Ми не маємо жодної машини. “We have no cars available.”
References
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]