Determinatives

Determinatives in English grammar are words that express additional information such as definiteness, proximity, quantity, and relationships about a noun phrase or verb phrase in the form of a present participle.

Determinative is a grammatical function.

The grammatical form that can function as the determinative in English grammar is the determiner. The six types of determiners are articles, possessive determiners, demonstrative determiners, interrogative determiners, numerals, and quantifiers. Possessive nouns, which are nouns and noun phrases plus the possessive clitic (apostrophe s or s apostrophe), also function as determinatives.

Determinatives are constituents of the noun phrase or verb phrase.

References

Brinton, Laurel J. & Donna M. Brinton. 2010. The linguistic structure of Modern English, 2nd edn. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Hopper, Paul J. 1999. A short course in grammar. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.
Huddleston, Rodney. 1984. Introduction to the grammar of English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.