User talk:CapnPrep

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Header for "Article" as POS

I posted this reply in the discussion about POS headers, but since it's interpolated in the middle of a rather lengthy discussion, I thought it best to post directly to you as well.

The Articles heading may apply to only two words in English (and three entries), but for highly inflected languages like Greek and Latin, it covers dozens of entries and becomes a very useful header for English speakers byquickly alerting the reader that the entry is equivalent to "a" or "the". It's also significant as a category because many languages have determiners, but lack words that function as articles. In particular, Hungarian and the Slavic languages do not have articles but do have determiners. --EncycloPetey 18:35, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Doubtful Determiners

(discussion moved back to User talk:BrettR#Doubtful determiners)

I may be confusing what Huddleston & Pullum call determinatives (a lexical class) with determiners (a function).--BrettR 03:05, 20 January 2007 (UTC)