It is generally thought that definite determiners exclusively mark nouns as definite. In several languages, however, definite determiners may modify both nouns and verbs. As I will argue, the existence of these “multi-functional” elements suggests that determiners are in fact phrases. This syntactic move has a philosophical payoff. Among other things, it allows us to cast Donnellan's distinction as an ordinary consequence of the context-invariant compositional semantics of natural language, not as a matter of contextual manipulation or lexical ambiguity. Multi-functional determiners show us that Donnellan's distinction is, contra Donnellan, a matter of grammar.

中文翻译：

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限定符是短语

一般认为确定限定词专门将名词标记为确定的。然而，在几种语言中，确定限定词可以同时修饰名词和动词。正如我将论证的那样，这些“多功能”元素的存在表明限定词实际上是短语。这种句法移动具有哲学上的回报。除其他外，它允许我们将 Donnellan 的区分作为自然语言的上下文不变组合语义的普通结果，而不是上下文操作或词汇歧义的问题。多功能限定词向我们表明，与唐纳兰相反，唐纳兰的区分是语法问题。