a word that comes before a determiner (a word such as ‘a’, ‘the’, ‘his’, and ‘this’) and gives more information about a noun. For example in the noun groups ‘all my fingers’ and ‘half a loaf’, ‘all’ and ‘half’ are predeterminers.
Synonyms and related words
Types and forms of word, clause or sentence
accusative
adjunct
allomorph
predeterminer
noun countable linguistics
US /ˌpridɪˈtɜrmɪnər/
Word Forms
singular
predeterminer
plural
predeterminers
DEFINITIONS1
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a word that comes before a determiner (a word such as ‘a’, ‘the’, ‘his’, and ‘this’) and gives more information about a noun. For example in the noun groups ‘all my fingers’ and ‘half a loaf’, ‘all’ and ‘half’ are predeterminers.