Determiners

Determiners are words or phrases in noun phrases that modify or indicate what entities the noun refers to. For example, a determiner can constrain the meaning of the noun to a specific or non-specific, known or unknown entity, or a particular number of entities. Determiners include the following types.

• Demonstratives: this, that, these, those
• Definite and indefinite delimiters or articles: a, an, the (I prefer to use my own term delimiter instead of article)
• Possessive determiners: my, your, his,her,its,our, their
• Quantifiers: many, few, several
• Numerals: one, two; first, second
• Distributive determiners: each, any, both
• Interrogative determiners: which
• Noun classifiers: In East Asian languages, classifiers indicate a semantic class or noun type, e.g., Chinese yi ge shitou and Korean dolmaengi han ge, where ge is used in both languages as a noun counter for general nouns that indicates a particular item