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one of a limited class of noun modifiers that determine the referents of noun phrases (同)determinative
fix in scope; fix the boundaries of; "the tree determines the border of the property"
find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort; "I want to see whether she speaks French"; "See whether it works"; "find out if he speaks Russian"; "Check whether the train leaves on time" (同)check, find_out, see, ascertain, watch, learn
establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study; "find the product of two numbers"; "The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize" (同)find, find_out, ascertain
fix conclusively or authoritatively; "set the rules" (同)set
shape or influence; give direction to; "experience often determines ability"; "mold public opinion" (同)shape, mold, influence, regulate

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決定詞(辞),限定詞(辞)(a,the,your,this,some,anyなど名詞の意味を限定する語)
冠詞の前に用いられる語(such a good boyのsuchなど)
(前もって)…‘を'『決定する』,はっきりさせる / …‘を'『決心する』,決意する / 《『determine』+『名』+『to』 do》〈物事が〉(…することを)〈人〉‘に'決心させる』,決意させる / …‘を'『左右する』,決定づける / 〈数量・位置・速度など〉‘を'測定する,確認する / (…を)決心する,決定する《+『on』+『名』(do『ing』)》

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The girl is a student. I've lost my keys. Some folks get all the luck. Which book is that? I only had twenty-seven drinks. I'll take this one. Both windows were open.

A determiner, also called determinative (abbreviated DET), is a word, phrase, or affix that occurs together with a noun or noun phrase and serves to express the reference of that noun or noun phrase in the context. That is, a determiner may indicate whether the noun is referring to a definite or indefinite element of a class, to a closer or more distant element, to an element belonging to a specified person or thing, to a particular number or quantity, etc. Common kinds of determiners include definite and indefinite articles (like the English the and a or an), demonstratives (this and that), possessive determiners (my and their), quantifiers (many, few and several), numerals, distributive determiners (each, any), and interrogative determiners (which).

For examples of determiners and their use, see the box on the right. For further details of their use in English, see English determiners and English articles.

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Most determiners have been traditionally classed either along with adjectives or with pronouns, and this still occurs: for example, demonstrative and possessive determiners are sometimes described as demonstrative adjectives and possessive adjectives or as (adjectival) demonstrative pronouns and (adjectival) possessive pronouns respectively. However, modern theorists^[1] of grammar prefer to distinguish determiners as a separate word class from adjectives, which are simple modifiers of nouns, expressing attributes of the thing referred to. This distinction applies particularly in languages like English that use definite and indefinite articles, frequently as a necessary component of noun phrases – the determiners may then be taken to be a class of words that includes the articles as well as other words that function in the place of articles. (The composition of this class may depend on the particular language's rules of syntax; for example, in English the possessives my, your etc. are used without articles and so can be regarded as determiners, whereas their Italian equivalents mio etc. are used together with articles and so may be better classed as adjectives.) Not all languages can be said to have a lexically distinct class of determiners.

In some languages, the role of certain determiners can be played by affixes (prefixes or suffixes) attached to a noun or by other types of inflection. For example, definite articles are represented by suffixes in Romanian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, and Swedish. (For example, in Swedish, bok ("book"), when definite, becomes boken ("the book"), while the Romanian caiet ("notebook") similarly becomes caietul ("the notebook").) Some languages, such as Finnish, have possessive affixes, which play the role of possessive determiners like my and his.

X-bar theory contends that every noun has a corresponding determiner (or specifier). In a case where a noun does not have an explicit determiner (as in physics uses mathematics), X-bar theory hypothesizes the presence of a zero article, or zero determiner. Noun phrases that contain only a noun and do not have a determiner present are known as bare noun phrases.^[2]

Some modern grammatical approaches regard determiners (rather than nouns) as the head of their phrase and thus refer to such phrases as determiner phrases rather than noun phrases. For more detail on theoretical approaches to the status of determiners, see Noun phrase § Noun phrases with and without determiners.

Some theoreticians unify determiners and pronouns into a single class. See Pronoun: Theoretical considerations.

Universal Grammar is the theory that all humans are born equipped with grammar, and all languages share certain properties. There are arguments that determiners are not a part of Universal Grammar and are instead part of an emergent syntactic category. This has been shown through the studies of some languages' histories, including Dutch.^[3]

Determiners may be subcategorized as predeterminers, central determiners and postdeterminers, based on the order in which they can occur. For example, "all my seventeen very young children" uses one of each. "My all seventeen very young children" is ungrammatical because a central determiner cannot precede a predeterminer.

References

^ According to the OED (Second Edition), the word determiner was first used in its grammatical sense by Leonard Bloomfield in 1933.
^ Nemoto, Naoko. "On Mass Denotations of Bare Nouns in Japanese and Korean." Linguistics, 2005, pg. 383
^ Van de Velde F. "The emergence of the determiner in the Dutch NP. Linguistics, March 2010;48(2):263-299

External links

GrammarBank – Determiners Practice
SIL Glossary of linguistic terms – What is a determiner?

English Journal

Assessing the Quality of Care Provided to Older Persons with Frailty in Five Canadian Provinces, Using Administrative Data.

Kendell C, Lawson B, Puyat JH, Urquhart R, Kazanjian A, Johnston G, Straus SE, Durand P, Juneau L, Turgeon AF, Légaré F, Aubin M, Rochette L, Giguere AMC.
Canadian journal on aging = La revue canadienne du vieillissement. 2020 Mar;39(1)52-68.
Nous avons examiné la qualité des soins fournis aux personnes âgées fragiles dans cinq provinces canadiennes à partir de données administratives sur la santé. Dans chaque province, nous avons considéré les personnes âgées fragiles en fonction de deux cohortes : les personnes décédées e
PMID 32008598

Self-Report Tools for Assessing Physical Activity in Community-Living Older Adults with Multiple Chronic Conditions: A Systematic Review of Psychometric Properties and Feasibility.

Garnett A, Ploeg J, Markle-Reid M, Strachan PH.
Canadian journal on aging = La revue canadienne du vieillissement. 2020 Mar;39(1)12-30.
Identifier l'outil d'autodéclaration de l'activité physique (AP) le plus adapté pour l'évaluation de l'AP chez les personnes âgées vivant dans la communauté qui sont atteintes de multiples maladies chroniques (MMC). L'AP peut avoir une influence positive sur la santé physique et psychologiqu
PMID 31631827

Is Immediate Processing of Presupposition Triggers Automatic or Capacity-Limited? A Combination of the PRP Approach with a Self-Paced Reading Task.

Schneider C, Bade N, Janczyk M.
Journal of psycholinguistic research. 2020 Feb;().
Informally speaking, presuppositions are meaning components which are part of the common ground for speakers in a conversation, that is, background information which is taken for granted by interlocutors. The current literature suggests an immediate processing of presuppositions, starting directly o
PMID 32030581

Japanese Journal

母語話者と第二言語話者の心内辞書 : 語類の混在する単語群における意味的クラスタリング構造

折田充,小林景
熊本大学社会文化研究 10, 17-31, 2012-03-26
… A free sorting task using a set of 50 high-frequency English words taken from mixed word classes (30 nouns, five verbs, six adjectives, six adverbs, one pronoun, one determiner and one (conjunction) were given to 28 native speakers of English (NS) and 28 advanced-level Japanese speakers of English (NNS). …
NAID 110008916820

英語の準数詞の形態的・統語的特性について

前川貴史
北星学園大学短期大学部北星論集 9, 15-23, 2011-03
NAID 110008380204

The Inclusiveness Condition and Operator-Variable Constructions : Definite Determiner as a Variable

Tonoike Shigeo
英文学思潮 84, 9-28, 2011
NAID 40019230132

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