In linguistics, determinatum (from the Latin determinare, to fix the limits of something) is a part of speech that is modified by another part of speech. In the noun phrase noun phrase, for example, phrase is the determinatum, and noun is the determinans or modifier. The determinatum is often referred to as the head.
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