User:RockRockOn/A Minimalist Theory of Syntax/Determiner

First-Order Stacking

 * determiners must always precede nouns, adjectives, and whatever else they might point to.
 * For example:
 * Some happy dog
 * but not
 * *Happy some dog
 * When more than one determiner is present, there is often an order in which the determiners must be arranged. There is not Free Order Stacking within determiners.
 * For example:
 * these five awesome dudes
 * but not
 * *five these awesome dudes
 * Even though the determiners precede all of the adjectives and nouns in the phrase, they still conflict with each other.

Plural Declension

 * determiners pluralize by declension, not by adding a plural morpheme (inflection)
 * For example:
 * Singular: this dirty crook
 * Plural: these dirty crooks
 * Notice how the noun 'crook' pluralizes by adding 's' → 'crooks'
 * In contrast, the determiner 'this' pluralizes by changing its entire form → 'these'
 * Some plural declensions are in the exact same form as the singular declension:
 * the blogger → the bloggers
 * the noun 'blogger' pluralizes by inflection, adding 's' → 'bloggers'
 * the determiner 'the' pluralizes by declension, keeping its original form → 'the'