DET: determiner
Definition
Determiners are words that modify nouns or noun phrases and express the reference of the noun phrase in context.
Note that Chinese does not traditionally define determiners as a separate word class, but categorizes them as pronouns and/or adjectives. For this reason, in the UD framework some words in Chinese may function as determiners and be tagged DET in one syntactic context (i.e., when modifying a noun), and as pronouns (tagged PRON) when behaving as a nominal or the head of a nominal phrase.
Examples
- Demonstrative determiners
- 這 / zhè “this”, 這些 / zhèxiē “these”, 此 / cǐ “this”, 那 / nà “that”, 那些 / nàxiē “those”, 該 / gāi “that”
- Possessive determiner
- 其 / qí “his/her/its; their”, 本 / běn “our”
- Quantifying determiners
- Definite: 各 / gè “every”, 諸 / zhū “every”, 每 / měi “every”, 整 / zhěng “whole”, 全 / quán “whole”, 全部 / quánbù “all”, 一切 / yīqiè “all”, 所有 / suǒyǒu “all”
- Indefinite: 任何 / rènhé “any”, 有的 / yǒude “some”, 有些 / yǒuxiē “some”, 多 / duō “many”, 少 / shǎo “few”, 幾 / jǐ “several”, 許多 / xǔduō “many”, 若干 / ruògān “few”, 大部分 / dàbùfèn “the majority of”, / 大量 dàliàng “large quantity of”, 不少 / bùshǎo “not few”, 多數 / duōshù “most”
- Interrogative determiners
- 哪 / nǎ “which”, 哪樣 / nǎyàng “which (kind/type/way)”, 什麼 / shénme “what”, 何 / hé “what”, 多少 / duōshǎo “how many”
- Other
- 上 / shàng “the previous”, 下 / xià “the next”, 前 / qián “the previous”, 後 / hòu “the following”, 頭 / tóu “the first”, 其餘 / qíyú “the rest”, 某 / mǒu “some, certain (singular)”, 某些 / mǒuxiē “some, certain (plural)”, 其他 / qítā “other”, 另 / lìng “another”, 同 / tóng “the same”
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