Linguistics--- constituent structure

首先，determiner的定義是甚麼呢?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Determiner

A determiner is a noun modifier that expresses the reference of a noun or noun phrase in the context, including quantity, rather than attributes expressed by adjectives.

而英語的 determiners 包括以下數項：

* Articles: a, an, the
* Demonstratives: this, that, these, those, which, etc. (when used with noun phrases)
* Possessives: my, our, your, her, his, its, their, whose, and possessive nouns (John’s, the teacher’s)
* Quantifiers: all, few, many, several, some, every, each, any, no etc.
* Cardinal Numbers: one, two, fifty, etc.
* Ordinals: first, second, last, next, etc.

你可以看見，“my”亦在possessives一欄之內。

那麼，“my”是不是pronoun呢？答案不是，因為“my”是用來指示物品的所屬，所以是一個形容詞，而不是代名詞。有關“I”, “me”, “my”, “mine”這四個字的歸類，可以參看這篇文章：

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_personal_pronouns

你會看見， “my”是一個 “possessive adjectives”，而不是 “possessive pronouns”或 “personal pronouns”。

2006-10-29 05:15:50 補充：
無名君，有興趣知道你的那一本 syntax 書叫咩名。

my of course 係pronoun喇，
不過如果你想畫個syntax tree出黎既話，
佢會係做DP架~
DP
/
D'
/ \
D NP
my

my係由NP度raise上去