What is a determiner?

A determiner is a word or affix that belongs to a class of noun modifiers that expresses the reference, including quantity, of a noun.

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• What is an article?
• What is a demonstrative?
• What is a quantifier?

• What is a word?

Crystal 1980 108

Hartmann and Stork 1972 64

Lyons 1977b 454–455

Mish 1991 346

Context for this page:

• Concept module: determiner
• In overview module: Glossary (Linguistics): D
• In modular book: Glossary of linguistic terms, by Eugene E. Loos (general editor), Susan Anderson (editor), Dwight H., Day, Jr. (editor), Paul C. Jordan (editor), and J. Douglas Wingate (editor)
• In bookshelf: Linguistics

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