DET: determiner
Definition
Determiners are words that modify nouns or noun phrases and express the reference of the noun phrase in context.
Note that Chinese does not traditionally define determiners as a separate word class, but categorizes them as pronouns and/or adjectives. For this reason, in the UD framework some words in Cantonese may function as determiners and be tagged DET in one syntactic context (i.e., when modifying a noun), and as pronouns (tagged PRON) when behaving as a nominal or the head of a nominal phrase.
Examples
- Demonstrative determiners - 呢 / ni1 “this”, 嗰 / go2 “that”
- Possessive determiner - 本 / bun2 “our”
- Quantifying determiners
- Definite: 每 / mui5 “every”, 成 / sing4/seng4 “whole”, 全 / cyun4 “whole”, 全部 / cyun4bou6 “all”, 所有 / so2jau5 “all”
- Indefinite: 任何 / jam3ho4 “any”, 有的 / jau5di1 “some”, (好)多 / (hou2)do1 “many”, (好)少 / (hou2)siu2 “few”, 幾 / gei2 “several”, 大部分 / daai6bou6fan6 “the majority of”, 唔少 / m4siu2 “not few”, 多數 / do1sou3 “most”
- Interrogative determiners - 邊 / bin1 “which”, 乜(嘢) / mat1(je5) “what”, 咩 / me1 “what”, 幾多 / gei2do1 “how many”
- Other
- 上 / soeng6 “the previous”, 下 / haa6 “the next”, 前 / cin4 “the previous”, 後 / hau6 “the following”, 頭 / tau4 “the first”, 其餘 / kei4jyu4 “the rest”, 某 / mau2 “some, certain (singular)”, 其他 / kei4taa1 “other”, 另(外) / ling6(ngoi5) “another”, 同 / tong4 “the same”
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