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In English, words like 'the' and 'a' are typical determiners. They are often used to describe some specific or non-specific instance of an item described by a noun. If a speaker utters the phrase "the man left" he or she typically has some particular man in mind and expects the hearer to know which man he or she is referring too. Articles is another typical name for determiner. [[Quantifier (definition)|quantifier]], [[Numeral (definition)|numerals]], and [[Deictic (definition)|deictic determiners]] are often classed as special kinds of determiners.
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In English, words like 'the' and 'a' are examples of determiners. They are used to describe some specific or non-specific instance of an item described by a noun. If a speaker utters the phrase "the man left" he or she typically has some particular man in mind and expects the hearer to know which man he or she is referring too. [[Articles (definition)|Articles]], [[Quantifier (definition)|quantifiers]], [[Numeral (definition)|numerals]], and [[Deictic (definition)|deictic determiners]] are special kinds of determiners.
  
 
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Revision as of 11:35, 5 June 2012

In English, words like 'the' and 'a' are examples of determiners. They are used to describe some specific or non-specific instance of an item described by a noun. If a speaker utters the phrase "the man left" he or she typically has some particular man in mind and expects the hearer to know which man he or she is referring too. Articles, quantifiers, numerals, and deictic determiners are special kinds of determiners.

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  • Crystal, D. (2008) Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. 6th Edition. Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Matthews, P. H. (1997) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.