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Genitive vs Determiner - What's the difference?

genitive | determiner |

In grammar terms the difference between genitive and determiner

is that genitive is of or pertaining to that case (as the second case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses origin or possession. It corresponds to the possessive case in English 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 an adjective genitive

is of or pertaining to that case (as the second case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses origin or possession. It corresponds to the possessive case in English.

genitive

English

(wikipedia genitive)

Adjective

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  • (grammar) Of or pertaining to that case (as the second case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses origin or possession. It corresponds to the possessive case in English.

    • Noun

  • (grammar, uncountable) An inflection pattern (of any given language) that expresses origin or ownership and possession.
  • (grammar, countable) A word inflected in the genitive case; a word indicating origin, ownership or possession.

    • Derived terms

    * (w) ----

    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,

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "determiner")

    Synonyms

    * (word class) determinative

    Derived terms

    * (in grammar) determiner phrase

    See also

    * * * article * demonstrative

    References

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