Determiners: Nouns: Basic Derived Basic Derived

This paper will discuss some of the syntactic properties of determiners and the problems associated with them, and will suggest a syntactic analysis that focuses mainly on the similarities between determiners and nouns. Even though the focus of this paper will be primarily on numerals, most of what will be said can be extended to other determiners1 as well. Let us begin by noting that many determiners in Hebrew, and numerals in particular, have two forms which seem to be derived from each other by the same rule that derives heads of construct-state (CS) nominals (úåëéîñ) from the basic form of the noun; I will refer to these two forms as the “basic ” and “derived” forms. This is illustrated for determiners (numerals in this case) and for nouns in the following table