ABSTRACT
This chapter constitutes the material for all or part of a practical. It concerns five of the many types of determiner in Italian and English. A determiner is an expression which specifies the range of reference of a noun. We have chosen determiners which often pose problems in translation. The five types are: definite and indefinite articles (the, a); demonstratives (this, that, those); possessives (my, your, etc.); relative pronouns, a subset of the wh-deter-miners (what(ever), which (ever), whose); and quantifiers (some, any, each, etc.). We shall give most attention to cases where there tends to be asymmetry between English and Italian usage-that is, where one type of determiner tends to be rendered with a different type, or where a determiner is present in one language but not in the other.
