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 (DEM): 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.

Lists of determiners

• English determiners

UNL

In UNL, determiners are represented by quantifying attributes, if quantifiers, or reference attributes, if articles and demonstratives. Numerals and possessive determiners are represented by UWs.