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Determinative vs Determiner - What's the difference?

determinative | determiner |

Determiner is a related term of determinative.

Determiner is a synonym of determinative.



In grammar terms the difference between determinative and determiner

is that determinative is a word that typically functions as a determiner in a noun phrase; many also have other functions.determiner in The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language Huddleston & Pullum, 2002. CUP while determiner is a dependent function in a noun phrase marking the NP as definite or indefinite. This function is usually filled by words in the determinative class but may be filled by other elements such as a genitive pronoun.

As nouns the difference between determinative and determiner

is that determinative is an ideogram used to mark semantic categories of words in logographic scripts while determiner is a member of a class of words functioning in a noun phrase to identify or distinguish a referent without describing or modifying it. Examples of determiners include articles (a, the), demonstratives (this, those), cardinal numbers (three, fifty), and indefinite numerals (most, any, each).

As an adjective determinative

is determining deciding something.

determinative

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (linguistics) An ideogram used to mark semantic categories of words in logographic scripts.
  • (grammar) A word that typically functions as a determiner in a noun phrase; many also have other functions.determiner in Huddleston & Pullum, 2002. CUP.
  • Synonyms

    (ideogram) taxogram

    See also

    * article * demonstrative

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Determining (gloss) something.
  • * 1905 January 21, Ch. Kent, opinion, New York Foundling Hospital ''v.'' Gatti'', Arizona [Territorial] Supreme Court, as reported in, 1907, ''The Lawyers Reports Annotated , new series, volume 7, page 313 [http://books.google.com/books?id=N6m2AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA313&dq=determinative]:
  • This proceeding, though not presenting questions difficult of determination, or points of law that are novel, is unusual in many of its features, and is important as determinative of the disposition and welfare of a number of little children, ignorant of the contest that is being carried on in regard to them.
  • * 2009 July, , Financial Instruments , ISBN 9781905590698, page 617 [http://books.google.com/books?id=nwV-hbTHxeMC&pg=PA617&dq=determinative]:
  • An entity does not automatically conclude that any observed transaction price is determinative of fair value.

    References

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    determiner

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (grammar) A member of a class of words functioning in a noun phrase to identify or distinguish a referent without describing or modifying it. Examples of determiners include articles (a, the), demonstratives (this, those), cardinal numbers (three, fifty), and indefinite numerals (most, any, each).
  • (grammar) A dependent function in a noun phrase marking the NP as definite or indefinite. This function is usually filled by words in the determinative class but may be filled by other elements such as a genitive pronoun.
  • Something that determines, or helps someone to determine, something else.
  • * 1901 : Azel Ames, The Mayflower and Her Log
  • The "steel-yards" and "measures" were the only determiners of weight and quantity — as the hour-glass and sun dial were of time — possessed at first (so far as appears) by the passengers of the Pilgrim ship,

    Synonyms

    * (word class) determinative

    Derived terms

    * (in grammar) determiner phrase

    See also

    * * * article * demonstrative

    References

    determiner in Huddleston & Pullum, 2002. CUP. ----