Determiners

General characteristics:

• Determiners are functional words at the left of a noun phrase, i.e. they occur in environments such as __ student(s) called. or Pat wondered about __ student(s). Pat wondered about __ student(s).

Subclasses:

• Articles: a(n), the
• Demonstratives: this/these, that/those
• Quantifiers:
  • simple quantifiers: all, much, some, few, little
  • complex quantifiers: a couple, a few, a great deal of, lots of, not any, hardly any
• Numerals: two

Reference: Kaplan, Jeffrey P. (1989): English Grammar - Principles and Facts (2nd edition). New Jersey.

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