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Lecture 6 Lecture 7Determiners Introduction: Words that precede any premodifying adjectives in a noun phrase and denote such referential meanings as specific reference, generic reference, definite quantity or indefinite quantity are referred as determiners. Determiners include: definite article—the articles indefinite article—a/an zero article possessive determiners—my, your, his, etc genitive nouns—John’s, my friend’s demonstrative determiners—this, that, these, those relative determiners—whose, which interrogative determiners—what, which, whose indefinite determiners—every, enough, no some, any, each cardinal numerals ordinal numerals fractional multiplicative numerals other quantifiers Collocations between determiners and nouns The choice of determiners is closely related to the three class of nouns: singular count nouns, plural count nouns and noncount nouns. 1) Determiners with all three classes of nouns 2) Determiners with singular count nouns only 3) Determiners with plural count nouns only 4) Determiners with noncount nouns only 5) Determiners with singular and plural count nouns only 6) Determiners with singular and noncount nouns only 7) Determiners with plural and noncount nouns only 2. Collocation between determiners Central determiners, predeterminers and postdeterminers According to their position, determiners fall into three subclass: central determiners, predeterminers and postdeterminers. Central determiners and predeterminers are mutual exclusive while postdeterminers are not mutual exclusive, that is to say two or more such items can co-occur in a nou phrase. 2) Word order of