Formative vs Determinative - What's the difference?
formative | determinative | Synonyms |
Of or pertaining to the formation and subsequent growth of something.
Capable of forming something.
(biology) Capable of producing new tissue.
(grammar) Pertaining to the inflection of words.
(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]:
In grammar terms the difference between formative and determinative
is that formative is a language unit that has morphological function while 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.formative
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Adjective
(en adjective)- My formative years were spent in an inner city.
Derived terms
* formativenessdeterminative
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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.