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. Under this definition, determiners include articles and pronominal adjectives. In Classical Armenian, the tag DET is used for:
- demonstrative/possessive particles;
- pronominal adjectives, including indefinite pronominal adjectives;
- quantifiers.
Adjectival pronouns and pronominal quantifiers are traditionally included into pronouns. However, the tag PRON is reserved for pronouns occurring as the head of a noun phrase in UD. Pronominal adjectives of animate and inanimate indefinite pronouns inflect for Animacy and Definite morphological features.
Examples
- demonstrative/possessive particles: =ս/=s, =դ/=d, =ն/=n
- pronominal adjectives, including indefinite pronominal adjectives: իմ/im ‘my’, ոմն/omn ‘certain’
- quantifiers: մի/mi ‘certain’, ամենայն/amenayn ‘every’, բազում/bazowm ‘many’
References
Jensen, Hans. 1959. Altarmenische Grammatik. Heidelberg: Winter.
Jungmann, Paul. 1964‒1965. L’emploi de l’article défini avec le substantif en arménien classique. Revue des Études Arméniennes 1: 47−99; 2 (1965): 43−116.
Klein, Jared. 1996. On Personal Deixis in Classical Armenian. A Study of the Syntax and Semantics of the n-, s-, and d-Demonstratives in Manuscripts E and M of the Old Armenian Gospels. Dettelbach: Röll, 1996.
Klein, Jared. 1997. Indefinite Pronouns, Polarity, and Related Phenomena in Classical Armenian: A Study Based on the Old Armenian Gospels. Transactions of the Philological Society 95/2: 189-245.
Klein, Jared. 2017. The syntax of Armenian. In: Jared Klein et al. (eds.), Handbook of comparative and historical Indo-European linguistics. Berlin, Boston: Walter de Gruyter: 1097‒1115.
de Lamberterie, Charles. 1997. L’article dans la relative en arménien classique. In: E. Crespo, J. L. García Ramón (eds.), Berthold Delbrück y la sintaxis indoeuropea hoy. Actas del Coloquio de la Indogermanische Gesellschaft Madrid, 21−24 de septiembre de 1994. Wiesbaden: Reichert, 1997: 311−326.
Meillet, Antoine. 1913. Altarmenisches Elementarbuch. Heidelberg: Winters (Internet Archive)
Müth, Angelika. 2011. Categories of definiteness in Classical Armenian. In: E. Welo (ed.) Indo-European syntax and pragmatics: contrastive approaches. Oslo Studies in Language 3/3: 11–25.
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