determiner n 1: an argument that is conclusive syn clincher, determining factor 2: one of a limited class of noun modifiers that determine the referents of noun phrases syn determinative 3: a determining or causal element or factor; "education is an important determinant of one's outlook on life" syn determinant, determinative, determining factor, causal factor Source: WordNet. Princeton University
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Demystifying French Grammar: Advanced French Grammar, Clarifying the Accents, Adjectives, Determiners, Questions/Negation, Pronouns, Prepositions, Imparfait/Passé Composé, & the French Subjunctive by Brandon SimpsonSmall Town Press1 Introduction 1 Introduction Determiners: Universals and variation (Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today) John Benjamins Publishing CompanyThis volume brings together recent work on the formal and interpretational properties of determiners across a variety of typologically and geographically unrelated languages. It seeks to answer the core question of modern linguistic theory: Which properties of languages are universal and which are variable? In recent theorizing, much of language variation is argued to stem from differences in the properties of features associated with functional heads. As such, this volume can be viewed as a case study of one such category: the determiner (D). The contributions all investigate the status of D as a language universal by examining the language-specific syntactic and semantic properties associated with this category. This volume will appeal to researchers and students in syntax and semantics, as well as to those who have more a specific interest in determiners and noun phrases. A Functional Approach to Child Language: A Study of Determiners and Reference (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics) by Annette Karmiloff-SmithCambridge University PressWhen A Functional Approach to Child Language first appeared in hardback in 1979, it was quickly recognized as a research report of the first rank and a timely, critical exposition of Piaget's views on language and thought. Whilst accepting the fundamental importance of Piaget's epistemology, the author argues that language acquisition will only be adequately explained if such an epistemology is explicitly focused on children's constructive interaction with their linguistic environment. In her own experimental work on referential expressions, Dr Karmiloff-Smith is concerned with the problem of ad-hoc experiment-generated behaviour and the analysis of children's normal language procedures. The results are carefully analysed and have significant theoretical implications. The volume as a whole makes a substantial contribution to child language studies and will be of interest to students of linguistics and of developmental and experimental psychology, and to those following advanced courses in language acquisition and child development. Translating the Untranslatable: A Solution to the Problem of Generating English Determiners (Center for the Study of Language and Information - Lecture Notes) by Francis BondCenter for the Study of Language and InfOne of the biggest problems for automatic translation is dealing with words and inflections that are obligatory in the target language but not in the source. This work is the first to provide a fully implemented solution to the problem of generating determiners and determining number: using a semantic representation and a series of three heuristic algorithms, this solution provides the most probable context-sensitive translation. Along with an extensive evaluation of the algorithms, this book offers much insight into natural language processing, machine translation, semantic analysis, and generation from underspecified inputs. De La Valeur Des Filigranes Du Papier: Comme Moyen De Determiner L'Age Et La Provenance De Documents Non Dates (1892) (French Edition) by Charles Moise BriquetKessinger Publishing, LLCThis Book Is In French. Determiner: Webster's Timeline History, 1709 - 2007 by Icon Group InternationalICON Group International, Inc.Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Determiner," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Determiner in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Determiner when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Determiner, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. Determiners and Quantifiers - Differences by Bianca MÃ1/4llerGRIN Verlag1. Introduction Determiner and quantifier â€" two technical terms for two distinct word classes, or does the latter denote a subset of the former? Paying attention to the linguistic discourse does not solve these questions at once. There are numerous differing and even contradictory notions of classification possibilities concerning the entities in question. The outcome of multiple approaches is that quantifiers denote a sort of subtype of the syntactic category determiner (Crystal 1995:222, Huddleston et al. 2002:356ff, Longbardi 2001:581f, Stowell 1991:47f, Quirk et al. 1972:138f). In addition, the concept was put forward that determiner and quantifier act as functional categories within the class of pronouns (Long 1961:46ff, Radford 2004:45). Yet another opinion is held by Lyons (1999:298ff), who suggests that determiner phrases do not represent a word class, but the grammatical category of definiteness. This brief summary of possible classifications only foreshadows the numerous similarities, but at the same time the differences, of the variety to be classified. Nevertheless, the purpose of this term paper is to name and describe these differences. In order to do so, a feature-based-analysis with respect to syntactic and semantic properties of the relevant members, bearing the label determiners and quantifiers will be presented. On the basis of this outcome, a conclusion will be drawn. However, the overall expectation to classify one, or possibly two, unitary categories cannot possibly be met within the framework of this work. Before turning to the core of this term paper, some abbreviated remarks have to be made in order to set a frame for the subsequent paper. The Determiners of Behavior at A Choice Point.by Edward Chace. TolmanPsychological Review |
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