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.
Determiners under this definition include both articles and pro-adjectives (pronominal adjectives), like այս/ays, այդ/ayd, ամենայն/amenayn, մէկայլ/mēkayl, միւս/miws. An important point to note is that most determiners are traditionally called pronouns; that is, a UD-conformant annotation of Middle Armenian must distinguish between substantive pronouns (UD tag PRON) and attributive pronouns (UD tag DET).
Also note that the DET tag includes (pronominal) quantifiers (words like հանչաք, հէնչափ/hančak’, hēnčap’, ամէն/amēn “that many, every”).
Note that in Middle Armenian a nominal usually allows one DET modifier, but there are occasional cases of addeterminers, which appear outside the usual determiner, such as այն in այն ամէն ջիլքն մարմնոյն/ayn amēn ǰilk’n marmnoyn “all those tendons in the body.” In such cases, both այն/ayn “this” and ամէն/amēn “all” are given the POS DET.
Examples
- indefinite article: մի/mi “a, an”
- possessive determiners: իմ/im, քո(քոյ, քու)/k’o(k’oy, kow), իր(իւր)/ir(iwr), մեր/mer, ձեր/jer, իրենց/irenc’ (իրանց/iranc’, իւրեանց/iwreanc’, իւրենց/iwrenc’) “my, your, his/her/its, our, your, their”
- demonstrative determiners: այս/ays “this”, as in Թո՛ղ զսէր աշխարհիս այս անցւորական:/T’o՛ġ zsēr ašxarhis ays anc’worakan “Leave love to this fleeting world.”
- interrogative determiners: ո՞ր/or “which?”, as in ո՞ր տեղւոյ օդն առողջ եւ բարեյարմար է/or teġwoy òdn aṙoġǰ ew bareyarmar ē “Where (lit. in which place) is the air healthy and pleasant?”
- relative determiners: որ/or “which”, as in այն տեղն որ մօտ է ʼի ծովն/ayn teġn or mòt ē ʼi çovn “The place which is close to the see”
- relative possessive determiners: ում(յում), որոյ(որու)/owm(yowm), oroy(orow) “whose”
- indefinite determiners: այլ/ayl, մէկ մի/mēk mi, մէկայլ/mēkayl, միւս/miws other/some, another, (the) other”
- total determiners: ամէն, ամէն մէկ “every”
DET in other languages: [axm] [bej] [bg] [bm] [cs] [cy] [da] [de] [el] [en] [es] [ess] [et] [fi] [fro] [fr] [ga] [grc] [hbo] [hu] [hy] [it] [ja] [kk] [kpv] [ky] [myv] [naq] [nmf] [no] [pcm] [pt] [qpm] [ru] [sla] [sl] [sv] [tr] [tt] [uk] [u] [urj] [xcl] [yue] [zh]