DET: determiner
Definition
Determiners typically modify a noun or noun phrase and help identify or quantify its referent. Ligurian determiners include articles, demonstrative, exclamative, interrogative, relative, indefinite, negative and total determiners, as well as attributive possessives.
Attributive possessives are tagged DET, as in mæ moæ “my mother”; possessives used pronominally are tagged PRON. Both receive Poss=Yes.
Partitive articles
The partitive articles de, da, do, di, and d’ are analysed as single DET words with lemma do. They receive Definite=Ind|PronType=Art and agree in Gender and Number with the noun. Unlike preposition-article contractions, they are not split into separate syntactic words.
In ghe saià di aggiutti “there will be some help”, di is a partitive article:
1 ghe ghe PRON _ _ 2 expl _ Gloss=there
2 saià ëse VERB _ _ 0 root _ Gloss=will-be
3 di do DET _ Definite=Ind|Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|PronType=Art 4 det _ Gloss=some
4 aggiutti aggiutto NOUN _ _ 2 nsubj _ Gloss=help
The same surface forms receive different analyses in other contexts:
- the preposition de “of, about” is ADP, as in parlâ de Zena “to talk about Genoa”;
- a preposition-article contraction is split into an
ADPand a definiteDET, as in a pòrta do giardin “the garden gate”, where do = de + o.
DET in other languages: [axm] [bej] [bg] [bm] [cs] [cy] [da] [de] [el] [en] [es] [ess] [et] [fi] [fr] [fro] [ga] [grc] [hbo] [hu] [hy] [hyw] [it] [ja] [kk] [kpv] [ky] [lij] [myv] [naq] [nmf] [no] [pal] [pcm] [pt] [qpm] [ru] [sl] [sla] [sv] [tr] [tt] [u] [uk] [urj] [xcl] [yue] [zh]