determinerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From determine +‎ -er.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA: /dɪˈtɜː.mɪ.nə(ɹ)/
• (General American) IPA: /dɪˈtɝ.mɪ.nɚ/

名詞

determiner (plural determiners)

1. Someone or something that determines, or helps to determine, something else.
   1. A factor that defines something, or one among several that define it.

      Near-synonym: definer

      In quality management, the determiners of quality sometimes differ across use cases.

      • 1901, Azel Ames, The Mayflower and Her Log:

        The "steel-yards" and "measures" were the only determiners of weight and quantity — as the hour-glass and sun dial were of time — possessed at first (so far as appears) by the passengers of the Pilgrim ship […]

   2. Someone or something (especially a sentient agent) that determines; a decider of a disposition.

      Near-synonyms: decider, decisor, disposer, definer, arbiter, arbitrator, decisionmaker

      He is the determiner [usually referring to God (in theological contexts) and job roles (in administrative contexts)]

      Who is the determiner? [administratively or theologically]

      The software is the determiner if no input is given before the prompt times out.

2. (grammar)
   1. A member of a class of words functioning in a noun phrase to identify or distinguish a referent without describing or modifying it.

      Hypernym: function word

      Hyponyms: article (i.e., a, an, the); demonstrative determiner (e.g., this, that, these, those); possessive determiner; cardinal number (e.g., 3, three, 51, fifty-one); quantifier (e.g., most, any, much, each); predeterminer, central determiner, postdeterminer

      Near-synonym: determinative (broadly synonymous)

      Definite articles, indefinite articles, and cardinal numbers acting as quantifiers are types of determiners.

   2. A dependent function in a noun phrase that marks it as definite or indefinite. This function is usually filled by words in the determinative class but may be filled by other elements such as a genitive pronoun.

      Near-synonym: determinative (broadly synonymous)

      In the sentence "Many people voted for him," the word many is a determiner.

引用

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:determiner.

派生語

• (grammar): determiner phrase, predeterminer, postdeterminer, null determiner, determinerhood, determinerless

参考

• Category:English determiners
• Category:Determiners by language
• article
• demonstrative

参照

• “determiner”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• determiner in The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language Huddleston & Pullum, 2002. CUP.

Further reading

• What Is a Determiner? scribbr.com