Almost six years ago a Russian member of Jose Carillo’s “English Forum" posed a very interesting question about a little discussed functional element of English sentence structure — the determiners, ...

Possessive determiners are used when we want to say that something or someone belongs to a person, a place or a thing. Note that a possessive determiner always comes before a noun or a noun phrase.

The suggested universal aspects have some plausibility. I propose that names belong universally, with pronouns and determiners, to a category of determinative. The behavior of names as vocatives and ...