determiners - 2025 ACF Winter

Question

A namesake “phrase hypothesis” states that in pro-drop languages, these syntactic elements are null rather than absent. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name these linguistic elements whose syntactic complements are nouns. Examples of these elements include articles like “the,” demonstratives like “that,” and pronouns.

ANSWER: determiners [accept D elements; accept DP or DP hypothesis; accept determiner phrase hypothesis]

[10e] In pro-drop Bantu languages, verbs are marked for this property of both the subject and object. Adjectives agree with their head noun for number and this property in French and Spanish.

ANSWER: grammatical gender [accept noun class]

[10m] Bantu languages and Hungarian have this characteristic, where discrete morphemes joined together in one word express distinct information. This characteristic is contrasted with analytic or fusional.

ANSWER: agglutinativity [or word forms like agglutinative; prompt on synthetic]

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Summary


California	Main	Y	5	10.00	60%	40%	0%
Canada	Main	Y	6	20.00	100%	83%	17%
Florida	Main	Y	10	14.00	90%	30%	20%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	6	10.00	83%	17%	0%
Midwest	Main	Y	10	11.00	80%	30%	0%
North	Main	Y	10	16.00	80%	50%	30%
Northeast	Main	Y	5	16.00	100%	40%	20%
Overflow	Main	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
Pacific Northwest	Main	Y	11	13.64	91%	36%	9%
South Central	Main	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
Southeast	Main	Y	10	15.00	90%	40%	20%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	8	13.75	75%	50%	13%
2025 ACF Nationals	2025-08-09	Y	14	15.71	86%	50%	21%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%

Data


Berkeley B	UCSC	0	10	0	10
Berkeley C	Berkeley A	0	10	10	20
Stanford A	Berkeley E	0	0	10	10
Berkeley D	Stanford B	0	0	0	0
Stanford C	Berkeley F	0	10	0	10
UCI	Claremont Pitzer	0	10	10	20
UCLA C	UCLA A	0	10	10	20
UCSD Vices and Virtues	USC	10	10	10	30
Claremont Scripps	UCSD What Hath God Wrought	0	10	10	20
UCLA D	UCLA B	0	10	0	10
UCSB	UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms	0	10	10	20
Carleton	McGill C	0	10	0	10
Guelph A	Toronto D	0	10	10	20
Ottawa	McGill A	10	10	10	30
Queen's A	McGill B	0	10	0	10
Toronto E	Queen's B	0	10	0	10
McMaster A	Toronto A	0	10	10	20
Toronto B	Toronto C	10	0	0	10
Toronto H	Toronto I	0	10	0	10
Toronto Metropolitan	Toronto J	0	10	0	10
McMaster C	Toronto K	0	10	0	10
FSU	UCF A	0	10	10	20
UF C	UF A	0	10	0	10
UF B	UF E	0	10	0	10
OSU C	CWRU A	0	10	0	10
CWRU D	MSU B	0	10	0	10
CWRU C	MSU A	0	10	0	10
OSU D	Kenyon B	0	10	0	10
OSU A	Pitt B	0	10	10	20
CWRU B	Pitt A	0	0	0	0
James Madison	Virginia Tech A	0	10	0	10
Clemson A	Liberty A	0	10	10	20
Virginia B	Liberty C	0	10	0	10
North Carolina B	Tennessee B	0	10	10	20
Roanoke	North Carolina C	0	10	0	10
South Carolina B	South Carolina A	0	10	0	10
Tennessee A	Liberty B	0	0	0	0
Tusculum	NC State	0	10	10	20
Virginia A	North Carolina A	0	10	0	10
Virginia Tech B	Clemson B	0	0	0	0
UMBC A	George Washington A	0	0	10	10
George Washington B	Johns Hopkins C	0	0	0	0
Johns Hopkins B	George Mason C	0	10	0	10
Maryland A	Penn A	10	10	10	30
Maryland B	Penn B	0	10	10	20
Maryland C	Johns Hopkins A	10	10	0	20
NYU A	George Mason B	10	10	10	30
NYU B	George Mason A	0	10	0	10
Georgetown B	Notre Dame E	0	10	0	10
Georgetown A	VCU A	0	10	10	20
Rutgers C	Princeton A	0	10	10	20
Lehigh B	Columbia B	0	10	0	10
Lehigh A	Columbia C	0	10	10	20
Columbia A	Vassar A	0	10	0	10
SIUE	WashU B	0	10	0	10
William Woods	Truman State	0	10	10	20
WashU A	Missouri A	0	10	0	10
WashU C	WashU D	0	10	0	10
Chicago A	Chicago B	0	10	10	20
Chicago C	Notre Dame A	0	10	10	20
Louisville B	Chicago D	0	0	0	0
Illinois A	Illinois C	0	10	0	10
Michigan A	Indiana A	0	10	10	20
Illinois B	Michigan C	0	10	0	10
Purdue C	Michigan D	0	10	0	10
Notre Dame B	Louisville A	0	10	0	10
Michigan B	Purdue A	10	10	0	20
Notre Dame C	Purdue B	0	10	0	10
Kentucky	UIC	0	10	10	20
Rutgers B	Swarthmore A	10	10	0	20
Carleton	Macalester A	0	10	0	10
Macalester B	St. Thomas	0	10	10	20
Iowa State	Minnesota C	0	10	10	20
Wisconsin	Minnesota A	0	10	10	20
Amherst A	Brandeis Lloyd George	0	10	0	10
Brown A	Amherst B	0	10	10	20
Brandeis Clemenceau	BC A	0	10	0	10
Harvard	Dartmouth	0	10	0	10
MIT A	Cornell-UG	10	10	10	30
MIT B	Brandeis Wilson	0	10	10	20
Yale A	Tufts A	0	10	0	10
Tufts B	Yale B	10	0	0	10
Williams	Brown C	0	10	10	20
Brandeis Orlando	Brown B	0	10	0	10
Alberta B	Ohio	0	10	10	20
Rose State	Texas A	0	0	0	0
Texas B	Arizona State A	0	10	0	10
Tulsa	Northwestern C	0	10	10	20
Arizona State B	UCO	0	10	0	10
Northwestern B	UTD A	10	0	10	20
Iowa	UTD B	0	10	0	10
Bristol B	Edinburgh A	0	10	10	20
LSE B	Cambridge A	0	10	0	10
Imperial B	Cambridge C	0	0	0	0
Durham A	Cambridge D	0	10	10	20
Birmingham A	City St George's A	0	10	0	10
Edinburgh B	Bristol A	10	10	10	30
Imperial C	Southampton A	0	10	0	10
Lancaster A	LSE A	0	10	0	10
Sheffield C	Manchester A	0	10	10	20
Warwick B	Manchester B	0	10	10	20
Oxford A	Durham B	10	10	10	30
Sheffield A	Oxford B	0	10	0	10
Cambridge B	Sheffield B	10	0	10	20
Warwick A	Southampton B	0	10	0	10
McGill D	Northwestern A	0	10	10	20
Binghamton A	Cornell-DII	0	10	10	20
RIT B	RIT A	0	10	0	10
Rochester	ESF	10	10	10	30
Binghamton B	Syracuse	0	10	0	10