Determiners

Determiners are noun-modifiers that express the reference of a noun or noun-phrase in the context, including quantity, rather than attributes expressed by adjectives. This function is usually performed by articles, demonstratives, possessive determiners, or quantifiers.

Natural Language

In the UNL^arium framework, determiners are further classified as:

• articles (ART): express definiteness (“a”, “the”)
• demonstrative determiners (DET): express position (“this”, in "this house is mine") (not to be confounded with demonstrative pronouns)
• possessive determiners (POD): express property (“my”, “your”) (not to be confounded with possessive pronouns)
• quantifiers (QUA): express quantities (“a lot of”, “several”) (not to be confounded with numerals)

Numeral determiners must be classified as numerals.

UNL

In UNL, determiners are to be represented by attributes, except for numerals and possessives, represented by UWs. See also articles, demonstratives, possessive pronouns and quantifiers.

Determiner attributes

Attribute	Value	English	UNL
@all	all	all books	book.@all
@any	any	any book	book.@any
@both	both	both books	book.@both
@certain	certain	certain books	book.@certain
@def	the	the book	book.@def
@distal	that, those	that book	book.@distal
@each	each	each book	book.@each
@either	either	either book	book.@either
@every	every	every book	book.@every
@indef	a, an	a book	book.@indef
@multal	a lot of, many, much, several	a lot of books	book.@multal
@neither	neither	neither foot	foot.@neither
@no	no	no book	book.@no
@other	other, another, else	other book	book.@other
@own	own	own book	book.@own
@paucal	a few, a little, few, little, some	a few books	book.@paucal
@proximal	this, these	this book	book.@proximal
@same	same	same book	book.@same
@such	such	such books	book.@such
@wh	what, whatever, which, whichever	what book	book.@wh

Lists of determiners

• English determiners