DET: determiner
Definition
Determiners are words that modify nouns or noun phrases and express the reference of the noun phrase in context. That is, a determiner may indicate whether the noun is referring to a definite or indefinite element of a class, to a closer or more distant element, to an element belonging to a specified person or thing, to a particular number or quantity, etc.
In Bulgarian the definite article is part of the word, thus it is not considered as determiner.
However, the following pronouns are mapped to determiners:
- demonstratives: Pda#, Pde#
- relatives: Pra#, Pre#, Prp#
- collectives: Pca#, Pce#
- interrogatives: Pia#, Pie#, Piy#, Pip#
- indefinites: Pfa#, Pfe#, Pfp#
- negatives: Pna#, Pne#, Pnp#
- possessives: Ps@l
Note that the attributive usages (#a#) and possessive attributive usages (#p#) go directly into DET category, while entities (#e#) can be either determiners or pronouns. The possessive pronouns (Ps#) are mapped with only their long forms (#l#). The short forms are clitics and will be treated as PRON.
Examples
- possessive determiners: мой / moy “my”, твой / tvoy “your”
- demonstrative determiners: тази / _tazi__ “this” as in _Вчера видях тази кола / Vchera vidyah tazi kola “I saw this car yesterday.”
- interrogative determiners: какъв / kakav “which.MASC.SG”
- relative determiners: какъвто / kakavto “which.MASC.SG”
- indefinite determiners: някакъв / nyakakav “some.MASC.SG”
- collective determiners: всякакъв / vsyakakav “any.MASC.SG”
- negative determiners: никакъв / nikakav “no.MASC.SG”
Note that the symbol `#’, used in the Universal POS section indicates a holder for arbitrary number of features, suppressed in the respective tag as irrelevant in the BulTreeBank tagset, when mapped to the Universal one.
The symbol `@’ marks the suppresion with one feature in the tag.
DET in other languages: [bej] [bg] [bm] [cs] [cy] [da] [de] [el] [en] [es] [ess] [et] [fi] [fro] [fr] [ga] [grc] [hu] [hy] [it] [ja] [kk] [kpv] [ky] [myv] [no] [pcm] [pt] [qpm] [ru] [sla] [sl] [sv] [tr] [tt] [uk] [u] [urj] [yue] [zh]