<commit_before>---
layout: postag
title: 'DET'
shortdef: 'determiner'
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This document is a placeholder for the language-specific documentation
for `DET`.<commit_msg>initial draft of DET<commit_after>---
layout: postag
title: 'DET'
shortdef: 'determiner'
---

[UD documentation on Determiners](http://universaldependencies.org/u/pos/DET.html) says "Note that the DET tag includes (pronominal) quantifiers  (words like many, few, several), However, cardinal numerals in the narrow sense (one, five, hundred) are not tagged DET even though some authors would include them in quantifiers. Cardinal numbers have their own tag NUM."

Additionally, there are six categories of determiners:

>
    articles (a closed class indicating definiteness, specificity or givenness): a, an, the
    possessive determiners: [cs] můj, tvůj, jeho, její, náš, váš, jejich
    demonstrative determiners: this as in I saw this car yesterday.
    interrogative determiners: which as in “Which car do you like?”
    relative determiners: which as in “I wonder which car you like.”
    quantity determiners (quantifiers): indefinite any, universal: all, and negative no as in “We have no cars available.”

Going by this definition, most of the Telugu pronouns (except the personal and reflexive pronouns) may have to be tagged as determiners. Let us go category by category.

**Articles:** Telugu does not have articles. So no issues.

**Possessive determiners:**
If we take one Telugu noun ఊరు, possible possessive pronouns that come with it can be:
నా ఊరు, నీ ఊరు, మీ ఊరు, మా ఊరు, మన ఊరు, వాళ్ళ ఊరు, వీళ్ళ ఊరు, వీడి ఊరు. ఆమె ఊరు. అతని ఊరు. ఆమె ఊరు. దాని ఊరు

So, all these "pronouns" should be treated as Determiners in UD. 

**Demonstrative Determiners:**
For the same Telugu noun above, two demonstrative pronouns (determiners) are:
ఈ ఊరు, ఆ ఊరు

Other demonstratives such as అది, ఇది, అవి, ఇవి perhaps should be considered pronouns, since they are not typically used as qualifiers for a noun like above, but are used to refer to some noun. 

**Interrogative Determiners:**
ఎవరి ఊరు, ఏ ఊరు, దేని ఊరు, 

**Quantity determiners/quantifiers**: 

List of quantifier words:
కొన్ని
అన్ని
అన్నీ
ఎన్ని
ఏవీ 
చాలా
కొంచెం
ఎక్కువ
తక్కువ
బోలెడు
ఎంత
అంత
కొంత



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