Determinative vs Dispositive - What's the difference?
determinative | dispositive |
(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.
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]:
* 2009 July, , Financial Instruments , ISBN 9781905590698, page 617 [http://books.google.com/books?id=nwV-hbTHxeMC&pg=PA617&dq=determinative]:
Intending to or resulting in disposition (disposing of or settling a matter).
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As adjectives the difference between determinative and dispositive
is that determinative is determining deciding something while dispositive is intending to or resulting in disposition (disposing of or settling a matter).As a noun determinative
is an ideogram used to mark semantic categories of words in logographic scripts.determinative
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* ("determinative" on Wikipedia)Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.
- An entity does not automatically conclude that any observed transaction price is determinative of fair value.