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ProtoFubarnii Determiners

Page history last edited by Tom Groves 15 years, 2 months ago

 

 

Quantifiers of count nouns: no, a couple of, a few, several, many, few, fewer, fewest, many, more, the most, most, some, all, each/every, enough, sufficiently few

Quantifiers of mass nouns: no, a little, little, less, least, much, more, the most, some, all, enough, sufficiently little

 

Demonstratives: this that these those

 

Distributive: each/every

 

Allowed:

some of this land      => quantifier + demonstrative

some of your land      => quantifier + possessive

this your land       => demonstrative + possessive

some of this your      => quantifier + demonstrative + possessive

5 of your dogs      => cardinal + demonstrative

5 of these dogs      => cardinal + possessive

5 these your dogs      => cardinal + demonstrative + possessive

 

All of these stacks can be followed by adjectives

think that "other" is actually a Demonstrative. Certainly it seems to behave in a similar manner - it basically says "not this/these, the ones not yet mentioned". It's slightly unusual, in that it can co-occur with "that" or "those". But other than that, it behaves much the same.

 

 

Count nouns   Mass nouns
singular plural  
     
no no no
some some some
  all all
any any any
  few little
  fewer less
  fewest least
  many much
  more more
  the most the most
  most most
  enough enough
  each/every  
    a little
  a few  

Articles: a, an, the

Demonstratives: this, that, these, those, which, etc.

Quantifiers: all, few, many, several, some, every, each, any, no, etc.

Cardinal Numbers: one, two, fifty, etc.

Possessive determiners (also known as "possessive adjectives" and "possessive pronouns"): my, your, his, etc.

Personal Determiners: we teachers, you guys

Universal Determiners: all, both

Distributive Determiners: each, every

Existential Determiners: some, any

Disjunctive Determiners: either, neither

Negative Determiners: no

Alternative-additive Determiners: another

Positive Paucal Determiners: a few, a little, several...

Pre-determiners: a type of determiner that can come before a noun with no interceding preposition. Examples: all, both, half.

Degree Determiners: many, much, few, little...

Sufficiency Determiners: enough, sufficient

Interrogative and Relative Determiners: which, what, whichever, whatever


I suspect PF will need most of these. I'd decided it didn't have Articles, but I should probably be flexible on that.

These are mostly little (<=2 syllable) words, with little or no derivational history. I just need to decide on them.

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