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Definition of Determinatives
1. determinative [n] - See also: determinative
Lexicographical Neighbors of Determinatives
Literary usage of Determinatives
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. First Steps in Assyrian: A Book for Beginners; Being a Series of Historical by Leonard William King (1898)
"The majority of these determinatives are placed before the words to which ...
In the following list of determinatives examples are added illustrating their ..."
2. An Assyrian Manual: For the Use of Beginners in the Study of the Assyrian by David Gordon Lyon (1886)
"determinatives, Phonetic complements. The reading of Assyrian is greatly helped
by the ... Most of the determinatives precede the words which they define. ..."
3. Egypt's Place in Universal History: An Historical Investigation in Five Books by Christian Karl Josias Bunsen, Samuel Birch (1867)
"determinatives. 8. A subdivision of Ideographs is the Determinative, ... A list
of these determinatives, about 200 in number, will be seen in Vol. I. pp. ..."
4. Egyptian Grammar, with Table of Signs, Bibliography, Exercises for Reading by Adolf Erman (1894)
"B. At a later period there is an inclination to attach s determinatives to a ...
A few determinatives represent exactly thc ject which their word denotes eg ..."
5. Exposition of the Grammatical Structure of the English Language: Being an by John Mulligan (1874)
"We have already observed one marked peculiarity of these two determinatives, viz;
that, unlike our other adjectives, they both possess a plural form. ..."
6. A History of Babylonia and Assyria by Robert William Rogers (1915)
"Some of the ideograms were used as determinatives, whose object was to show at once
... These determinatives were intended only as aids to the reader's eye, ..."
7. A Brief Grammar of the Portuguese Language with Exercises and Vocabularies by John Casper Branner (1910)
"determinatives 89. The determinatives have gender and number except tal which
has no gender distinction: Singular Plural MASCULINE FEMININE MASCULINE ..."
8. Researches in Prehistoric and Protohistoric Comparative Philology, Mythology by Hyde Clarke (1875)
"The use of determinatives for the distinction of classes of objects is inherent
in the ... These are probably derived from the older determinatives:—Vasco- ..."
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