English determiners

The determiner function is usually performed by the determiner class of words, but can also be filled by words from other entities:

1. Basic determiners are words from the determiner class (e.g., the girl, those pencils) or determiner phrases (e.g., almost all people, more than two problems).
2. Subject determiners are possessive noun phrases (e.g., his daughter, the boy's friend).
3. Minor determiners are plain NPs (what colour carpet, this size shoes) and prepositional phrases (under twenty meters, up to twelve people)