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The Determinators

The Determinators. Tammy Bullis , Pei- ju ( Cody)Ho & Sherry MacKay are… Determined to Help You Understand Determiners!. Determiners ( Prenominal Modifiers). Signal nouns in one of three ways. They define the relationship of the noun to the speaker, listener, or reader.

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The Determinators

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  1. The Determinators Tammy Bullis, Pei-ju (Cody)Ho & Sherry MacKay are… Determined to Help You Understand Determiners!

  2. Determiners (Prenominal Modifiers) Signal nouns in one of three ways. • They define the relationship of the noun to the speaker, listener, or reader. • They identify the noun as specific or general. • They quantify the noun specifically or refer to quantity in general.

  3. Count and Noncount nouns Count noun – a noun that can be made plural Noncount noun – a noun that can not be made plural. Concrete- coffee Abstract - information

  4. Types of Noncount Nouns • 1. Things that come in very small pieces - sugar • 2.Whole made up of similar parts-sets of things - luggage • 3. Names of subjects of study - Biology • 4. Abstractions - courage • 5. Liquids/fluids - blood • 6. Gases - air • 7. Solids/minerals – beef, gold • 8. Sports/types of recreation – basketball, homework • 9. Natural phenomena - snow • 10. Diseases - diabetes A1-C

  5. Types of Determiners

  6. Types of Determiners continued

  7. Order of Determiners in Noun Phrases1) Predeterminers • Quantifiers (all, both, each) • Multipliers (double, twice, five times) • Fractions (three-fourths, two-fifths)

  8. Order of Determiners in Noun Phrases2) Central determiners • Quantifiers (any, every, some) • Articles (a/an, the) • Possessive determiners (my, our, your) • Nouns as possessive determiners (Agnim’s, Su’s) • Demonstrative determiners (this, that)

  9. Order of Determiners in Noun Phrases3) Postdeterminers • Quantifiers (many, much, few, little, less, least, more, most) • Cardinal numbers (one, two) • Ordinal numbers (first, last, next) • Partitives (loaf of/jar of) A2-C

  10. Demonstrative Determiners

  11. Four Dimensions of Demonstrative Determiners • 1) Physical Distance • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cizn1SlqJLI

  12. Four Dimensions of Demonstrative Determiners • 2. Time • More distant in time vs. more immediate in time. • (That/Those) refer to something that happened farther back • Ex: We went skiing that winter. • (This/These) refer to something that happened more recently • Ex: We went skiing this winter.

  13. Four Dimensions of Demonstrative Determiners cont’d… • 3. Information Packaging • Noun phrases with this/these often introduce new information • 1. Non-referential/existential there constructions • Ex: There is this class at CSUSB that you have to take! 2. Without there Ex: So we went to this crazy party, which turned out to be a party for our department.

  14. Four Dimensions of Demonstrative Determiners cont’d… 4. Relevance: high/low This/That precede head nouns that have high relevance for the speaker Ex: Who has the right to try a man for a crime like genocide? Why, certainly it must be the courts of the nation in which this terrible crime was committed. That/Those precede head nouns that have low relevance for the speaker Ex: Who has the right to try a man for a crime? Why, certainly it must be the courts of the nation where that crime was committed. W1-C

  15. Quantifiers • A set of determiners that indicate an amount or number of something. W2-C

  16. When to Use Quantity Words • Use no and some in affirmative statements. Use any in negative statements and questions • Use much in negative sentences. Use a lot of in affirmative and negative sentences

  17. Quantifier Floating • All, both and each can occur in more position in a sentence. • Ex: All ofthe students are creative. • Part of the subject NP All the students. The students all are creative. After the noun when of is deleted. The students are all creative. After the verb.

  18. Quantifier Pronoun Flip • When all, both and each appear in an NP whose head is a pronoun, they must be followed by of and the pronoun is therefore in the object form. • Ex: All (of) his girlfriends got rings. • All of them got rings. • Both of them got rings. • Each of them got rings • X All them got rings. The quantifier and pronoun can optionally switch positions through a rule called quantifier-pronoun switch. When this happens, the pronoun, which no longer follows of, has the subject form. Ex: They all got rings.

  19. Partitives • Multiword expressions containing a count noun + of (ex. piece of cake) that denote a unit by which a following head noun can be counted. A bunch of grapes A can of soup A bag of flour A carton of eggs A bottle of ketchup A loaf of bread W3-C

  20. Possessive Determiners Possessive determiners and possessive pronouns appear to be similar Different syntactic categories based on environment Determiners only occur in NPs preceding head nouns Ex: He told my boyfriend. Pronouns occur only by themselves to mark things that have already been mentioned. xEx: That chocolate heart is Cara’s and this one is mine.

  21. Nouns as Possessive Determiners Entities, objects, long noun phrases a) The roof of the house b) The creations of a young designer Human & animals a) Professor’s shiny black hair b) the tiger’s paw Genitive Construction Of- Phrase Both Month, geographical locations a) December’s storms b) The storms of December

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