English determinersEnglish determiners (also known as determinatives) are words – such as the, a, each, some, which, this, and six – that are most commonly used with nouns to specify their referents. The determiners form a closed in English. The syntactic role characteristically performed by determiners is known as the determinative function (see ). A determinative combines with a noun (or, more formally, a nominal; see ) to form a noun phrase (NP). This function typically comes before any modifiers in the NP (e.g.
English pluralsEnglish nouns are inflected for grammatical number, meaning that, if they are of the countable type, they generally have different forms for singular and plural. This article discusses the variety of ways in which English plural nouns are formed from the corresponding singular forms, as well as various issues concerning the usage of singulars and plurals in English. For plurals of pronouns, see English personal pronouns. Phonological transcriptions provided in this article are for Received Pronunciation and General American.
Finnish grammarThe Finnish language is spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns elsewhere. Unlike the languages spoken in neighbouring countries, such as Swedish and Norwegian, which are North Germanic languages, or Russian, which is a Slavic language, Finnish is a Uralic language of the Finnic languages group. Typologically, Finnish is agglutinative. As in some other Uralic languages, Finnish has vowel harmony, and like other Finnic languages, it has consonant gradation.
Possession (linguistics)In linguistics, possession is an asymmetric relationship between two constituents, the referent of one of which (the possessor) in some sense possesses (owns, has as a part, rules over, etc.) the referent of the other (the possessed). Possession may be marked in many ways, such as simple juxtaposition of nouns, possessive case, possessed case, construct state (as in Arabic, and Nêlêmwa), or adpositions (possessive suffixes, possessive adjectives). For example, English uses a possessive clitic, 's; a preposition, of; and adjectives, my, your, his, her, etc.
English personal pronounsThe English personal pronouns are a subset of English pronouns taking various forms according to number, person, case and grammatical gender. Modern English has very little inflection of nouns or adjectives, to the point where some authors describe it as an analytic language, but the Modern English system of personal pronouns has preserved some of the inflectional complexity of Old English and Middle English.
Déterminant possessif en françaisEn grammaire française un déterminant possessif, anciennement dénommé adjectif possessif est une sous-catégorie de déterminant défini, ajoutant à l'actualisation du nom noyau, une idée de possession, de propriété, ou plus simplement, de contiguïté habituelle, en relation avec une personne grammaticale (première, deuxième ou troisième, du singulier ou du pluriel). Dans la catégorie des pronoms, le correspondant de l'adjectif possessif est le pronom possessif.
Object pronounIn linguistics, an object pronoun is a personal pronoun that is used typically as a grammatical object: the direct or indirect object of a verb, or the object of a preposition. Object pronouns contrast with subject pronouns. Object pronouns in English take the objective case, sometimes called the oblique case or object case. For example, the English object pronoun me is found in "They see me" (direct object), "He's giving me my book" (indirect object), and "Sit with me" (object of a preposition); this contrasts with the subject pronoun in "I see them," "I am getting my book," and "I am sitting here.
PartitiveIn linguistics, the partitive is a word, phrase, or case that indicates partialness. Nominal partitives are syntactic constructions, such as "some of the children", and may be classified semantically as either set partitives or entity partitives based on the quantifier and the type of embedded noun used. Partitives should not be confused with quantitives (also known as pseudopartitives), which often look similar in form, but behave differently syntactically and have a distinct meaning.
Oblique (cas)En linguistique, le terme de cas oblique (casus obliquus) désigne tout type de cas grammatical autre que celui servant de forme de citation (ou forme canonique, ou lemme). Il fonctionne essentiellement en opposition avec la notion de cas direct.
Outil interrogatifEn grammaire, un outil interrogatif est une catégorie de mots-outils servant à marquer une phrase interrogative ou une proposition subordonnée interrogative (dans ce cas c’est un subordonnant). Concernant sa nature, il peut être un pronom interrogatif, un adverbe interrogatif, un déterminant interrogatif ou une conjonction de subordination. Les outils interrogatifs sont fréquemment associés aux outils exclamatifs parce qu’ils partagent avec ces derniers un certain nombre de traits communs.
