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.
An important point to note is that the traditional grammar of Russian does not
define determiners as a separate word class. Russian does not have articles.
Most determiners are traditionally called pronouns; that is, an UD-conformant
annotation of Russian must distinguish between substantive pronouns (UD tag PRON)
and attributive pronouns (UD tag DET).
Examples
- possessive determiners: мой, твой, его, её, наш, ваш, их “my, your, his, her, our, your, their”
- reflexive possessive determiner: свой “one’s own”
- demonstrative determiners: этот as in Я видела эту машину вчера. “I saw this car yesterday.”
- interrogative determiners: какой as in Какая машина тебе нравится? “Which car do you like?”
- relative determiners: который as in Мне интересно, которая машина тебе нравится. “I wonder which car you like.”
- relative possessive determiner: чей “whose”
- indefinite determiners: некоторый
- total determiners: каждый
- negative determiners: никакой as in У нас не осталось никаких машин. “We have no cars available.”
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]