Determiner

This is consistent with the determiner phrase viewpoint, whereby a determiner, rather than the noun that follows it, is taken to be the head of the phrase.

When a noun is used in a sentence without an explicit determiner, a null (covert) determiner may be posited.

The vibe explanation does have obvious implications for President Biden since how people feel about the economy is usually a major determiner of how they vote.

Adjectives had both strong and weak sets of endings, the weak ones being used when a definite or possessive determiner was also present.

French generally prefers forms derived from bare ecce "behold", as in the pronoun ce "this one/that one" (earlier ço, from ecce-hoc) and the determiner ce/cet "this/that" (earlier cest, from ecce-istum).

Here that is the determiner, rather attractive and young are adjectival pre-modifiers, college is a noun adjunct, student is the noun serving as the head of the phrase, and to whom you were talking is a post-modifier (a relative clause in this case).

However, reportedly, the silkworm Bombyx mori uses a single female-specific piRNA as the primary determiner of sex. citation Despite the similarities between ZW and XY, the sex chromosomes do not line up correctly and evolved separately.

However, the phonetic element is basic, and these might be better thought of as characters used for multiple near homonyms, the identity of which is constrained by the determiner.

However, with feminine proper names the role of the vocative is played by the absence of the determiner; i.e. the personal article ła / l', which usually precedes feminine names in other situations, even in predicates.

In many contexts it is required for a noun phrase to include some determiner.

Linguists interested in X-bar theory causally link zero articles to nouns lacking a determiner.

Notice the order of the pre-modifiers; the determiner that must come first and the noun adjunct college must come after the adjectival modifiers.

On the other hand, some consider such a word to be a simple determiner rather than an article.

Originally both types of adjectives could be used by themselves, but already by Proto-Germanic times a pattern evolved whereby definite adjectives had to be accompanied by a determiner with definite semantics (e.

So, any noun not preceded by an article or other determiner is in vocative case.

Sometimes determiner (a broader class) is used instead.

Strong and weak proper names Because they are used to refer to an individual entity, proper names are, by their nature, definite; so a definite article would be redundant, and personal names (like John) are used without an article or other determiner.

The all-purpose determiner, "yang", is also often used before adjectives, hence "anjing yang galak" also means "ferocious dog" or more literally "dog which is ferocious"; "yang" will often be used for clarity.

The functions of the genitive are normally expressed using a combination of the dative and a possessive determiner: e.g. dem Mann säi Buch (lit.

The pronoun who refers to a person or people; it has an oblique form whom (though in informal contexts this is usually replaced by who), and a possessive form (pronoun or determiner) whose.