👉 Determinativeness in linguistics refers to a characteristic of certain types of words or phrases, which indicate their meaning is determined by context rather than by the grammatical rules. These words and phrases are often used in contexts where there is no clear rule for determining their meaning based on the syntactic structure alone. For example, "A dog" is determinativeness because it refers to a specific type of animal without any contextual clues. Determinativeness can be observed in various types of language, including