DET: determiner
Definition
Determiners (or pro-adjectives) 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.
DET tag includes (pronominal) quantifiers (words like ǂgui “many”, ǀoro “few”). Total determiner hoa “all” may follow a nominal it modifies (rather then precede it as usually). In this case it has the same Person, Gender, Number, and Assoc as the nominal, and gets the Case of the whole noun phrase. It also can be used as a part of discontinuous fixed multiword determiner mâ … hoa: hoa xūn, hoa xūna, (mâ) xūn hoan, (mâ) xūn hoana.
However, cardinal numerals in the narrow sense (ǀgui, ǀgam, ǃnona “one, two three”) are not tagged DET, but rather NUM.
In most cases, Khoekhoe determiners do not have person-gender-number suffixes and precede a nominal (the same is true about adjectives), whereas pronouns) have person-gender-number suffix suffixes.
Two possessive markers, ti “my” and sa “your (sing.)”, are tagged as DET, since they modify nominals and do not inflect (which is similar to adjectives.
Examples
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possessive determiners (which modify a nominal): ti “my”, sa “your (sing.)”
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demonstrative determiners: nē “this”, ǁnā “that”, nau “that (the other one)”
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interrogative determiners: mâ “which”
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total determiners: mâ, hoa “all”
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indefinite quantifiers: ǂgui “many”, ǀoro “few”
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negative determiners: xare “none, no” (in apposition with nouns)
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emphatic determiner: ǂû “-self” (in apposition with nominals)
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] [xcl] [yue] [zh]