DET

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`DET`: determiner

Definition

Determiners are words that modify nouns or noun phrases and express the reference of the noun phrase in context. In Norwegian, most determiners agree with the nominal head in terms of gender and number, e.g. min bil “my car”, mitt barn “my child”, mine barn “my children”. We distinguish three main types of determiners: possessive, demonstrative and quantifying.

Possessive

Possessive determiners agree in gender and number with the noun the modify, their form varies depending on person. In Norwegian, possessive determiners usually precede their head noun, but may occur after the head noun when the noun is in the definite form, e.g. bilen hans “his car” * mitt barn “my child” * våre barn “our children” * barnet vårt “our child”

Demonstrative

Demonstrative determiners agree in gender and number with the noun the modify. This group of determiners include the interrogative hvilken “which”. The demonstratives may only precede the noun they modify.

dette barnet “this child”, det barnet “that child”, den bilen“that car”
(det) samme barnet “(the) same child”, (det) andre barnet “(the) other child”
hvilken bil “which car”, hvilket hus “which house”

Quantifying

The quantifying pronouns are a heterogenous group of determiners which all occur before the noun they modify. Some of these agree with their nominal head (like articles and indefinite determiners) and some do not.

en bil “a car”, et barn “a child”, ei jente “a girl”
noen biler “some cars”
alle biler “all cars”
begge bilene “both cars”

References

Jan Terje Faarlund, Svein Lie and Kjell Ivar Vannebo. 1997. “Norsk referansegrammatikk”. Universitetsforlaget, Oslo, Norway.

Treebank Statistics (UD_Norwegian)

There are 46 DET lemmas (0%), 84 DET types (0%) and 16473 DET tokens (5%). Out of 17 observed tags, the rank of DET is: 10 in number of lemmas, 9 in number of types and 8 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent DET lemmas: en, den, de, det, sin, annen, noen, all, denne, min

The 10 most frequent DET types: en, et, den, de, det, andre, sin, alle, denne, noen

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: en (DET 6185, PRON 77, X 2), den (DET 1494, PRON 437), de (PRON 1636, DET 1349, PROPN 11, X 6, ADV 1), det (PRON 5440, DET 1116, X 3), noen (DET 536, PRON 109), all (DET 477, X 2), denne (DET 354, PRON 20), min (DET 336, X 1), vår (DET 298, NOUN 30), selv (ADV 302, DET 199)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: en (DET 3932, PRON 68, ADP 6, X 2, SCONJ 1), et (DET 1784, PRON 1), den (DET 1275, PRON 354), de (DET 1170, PRON 1054, PROPN 11, X 6, ADV 1), det (PRON 3781, DET 931, X 3), andre (DET 473, ADJ 53), alle (DET 337, PRON 137, ADV 1), denne (DET 306, PRON 18), noen (DET 288, PRON 87), noe (PRON 311, DET 221)

en
- DET 3932: Meddommerens utspill har en selvfølgelig smitteeffekt .
- PRON 68: Det var nok en og annen i rødt og hvitt som mente det siste .
- ADP 6: De står åpenbart for et annet syn en venstresidens .
- X 2: « Ni är välkommna för en intervju .
- SCONJ 1: Barn lærer utrolig fort og forstår mye mer en vi tror .
et
- DET 1784: « Han var et notorisk rovdyr .
- PRON 1: - Inntrykket jeg får når jeg går nedover Istedsgate som privatperson , er et at de prostituerte bare står der som kulisser man ikke forholder seg til .
den
- DET 1275: Pinefull død for den irske pub ?
- PRON 354: Da har regjeringen fått den medieoppmerksomheten den er ute etter .
de
- DET 1170: Dette rører ved de dypeste verdiene og holdningene vi har . »
- PRON 1054: Ap ønsker ikke å så tvil om at de tror på ny rødgrønn valgseier .
- PROPN 11: - Jeg kjente ham godt , sier de Seynes .
- X 6: Deretter fulgte “ Turbot au Four - purée de chou-fleur “ .
- ADV 1: Han ryddet i neste omgang også Marcus Antonius av veien , og ble av senatet utropt til August , den opphøyde , de facto imperiets første keiser .
det
- PRON 3781: Er det flere rovdyr i denne sak ?
- DET 931: Amerikanske myndigheter avkrefter unnskyldningen på det sterkeste .
- X 3: Kåm dåkk ut , og det litt breinnkvikt “ , kanskje ?
andre
- DET 473: Den andre ligger i kurven som henger på veggen .
- ADJ 53: Den ene familien etter den andre flytter fra bygda .
alle
- DET 337: Det blir et spark som straff , i moralens navn og på vegne av oss alle .
- PRON 137: Man bryter anstendighet for å si seg enig i det alle er enige om .
- ADV 1: Elsa og Øyvind bor alle øverst .
denne
- DET 306: Er det flere rovdyr i denne sak ?
- PRON 18: En irritasjon av nyere dato er denne :
noen
- DET 288: Det varte bare noen få år .
- PRON 87: Samtidig som jeg kjente at noen sparket inni meg .
noe
- PRON 311: Derfor har vi noe så paradoksalt som et museum for samtidskunst .
- DET 221: Han løser knapt noe oppdrag , skal ikke levere , har ikke deadline .

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of DET is 1.826087 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.382778).

The 1st highest number of forms (7) was observed with the lemma “en”: at, ei, en, ens, er, et, ett.

The 2nd highest number of forms (5) was observed with the lemma “annen”: andre, andres, annen, annens, annet.

The 3rd highest number of forms (4) was observed with the lemma “all”: all, alle, alles, alt.

DET occurs with 7 features: PronType (16473; 100% instances), Number (15916; 97% instances), Gender (12359; 75% instances), Poss (2095; 13% instances), Definite (884; 5% instances), Case (47; 0% instances), Degree (1; 0% instances)

DET occurs with 19 feature-value pairs: Case=Gen, Definite=Def, Definite=Ind, Degree=Pos, Gender=Fem, Gender=Masc, Gender=Neut, Number=Plur, Number=Sing, Poss=Yes, PronType=Art, PronType=Dem, PronType=Dem,Ind, PronType=Ind, PronType=Int, PronType=Neg, PronType=Prs, PronType=Rcp, PronType=Tot

DET occurs with 50 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|PronType=Art (4216 tokens). Examples: en

Relations

DET nodes are attached to their parents using 21 different relations: det (13412; 81% instances), nmod (2397; 15% instances), neg (182; 1% instances), nsubj (138; 1% instances), dobj (91; 1% instances), conj (77; 0% instances), root (76; 0% instances), appos (21; 0% instances), xcomp (18; 0% instances), nsubjpass (15; 0% instances), name (9; 0% instances), acl:relcl (8; 0% instances), ccomp (6; 0% instances), acl (4; 0% instances), goeswith (4; 0% instances), iobj (4; 0% instances), dislocated (3; 0% instances), remnant (3; 0% instances), advcl (2; 0% instances), compound (2; 0% instances), expl (1; 0% instances)

Parents of DET nodes belong to 11 different parts of speech: NOUN (14402; 87% instances), ADJ (826; 5% instances), VERB (405; 2% instances), PRON (258; 2% instances), PROPN (214; 1% instances), DET (201; 1% instances), NUM (79; 0% instances), ROOT (76; 0% instances), ADV (6; 0% instances), ADP (3; 0% instances), SCONJ (3; 0% instances)

15554 (94%) DET nodes are leaves.

591 (4%) DET nodes have one child.

184 (1%) DET nodes have two children.

144 (1%) DET nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a DET node is 9.

Children of DET nodes are attached using 24 different relations: nmod (374; 23% instances), case (291; 18% instances), advmod (159; 10% instances), det (158; 10% instances), punct (150; 9% instances), cop (99; 6% instances), nsubj (90; 6% instances), conj (57; 4% instances), cc (54; 3% instances), advcl (39; 2% instances), acl:relcl (36; 2% instances), amod (35; 2% instances), mark (19; 1% instances), neg (13; 1% instances), expl (10; 1% instances), acl (8; 0% instances), aux (8; 0% instances), appos (5; 0% instances), nummod (5; 0% instances), csubj (3; 0% instances), parataxis (3; 0% instances), dobj (2; 0% instances), name (2; 0% instances), remnant (1; 0% instances)

Children of DET nodes belong to 14 different parts of speech: ADP (315; 19% instances), NOUN (292; 18% instances), DET (201; 12% instances), VERB (185; 11% instances), PUNCT (150; 9% instances), ADV (123; 8% instances), PRON (108; 7% instances), ADJ (90; 6% instances), PROPN (77; 5% instances), CONJ (54; 3% instances), NUM (9; 1% instances), AUX (8; 0% instances), SCONJ (8; 0% instances), X (1; 0% instances)