Nominal Structures of Uralic Languages

Ordinal numerals normally require a definite determiner to be present. (The article can only be missing in list-style, or in so called telegraphic registers.)

*(az)	ötödik	versenyző
the	fifth	contestant

’the fifth contestant’

Source: Dékány & Csirmaz 2018: 1087.

Universal quantifiers and quantifiers with an -ik suffix cannot co-occur with the definite article if they are string-adjacent.

(*a)	minden/bármelyik	virág
the	every/any	flower

’every/any flower(s)’

Source: Dékány 2021: 73

Quantifiers with an -ik suffix cannot co-occur with the definite article if they are string-adjacent, but there are two exceptions to the rule: egyik 'one' and másik 'other one' can co-occur wuth a definite article.

(Az)	egy-ik	lányomat	ismered.
the	one-IK	daughter.1SG.ACC	know.2Sg

’You know one of my daughters.’

Source: Viszket, Kleiber & Szabó 2018: 1042.

Universal quantifiers and quantifiers with an -ik suffix obligatorily co-occur with the definite article if they are separated by another modifier, such as a participial modifier.

*(a)	tegnap	ültetett	minden/bármelyik	virág
the	yesterday	plant.PTCP	every/any	flower

’every/any flower(s) planted yesterday’

Source: Dékány 2021: 73

Universal quantifiers and quantifiers with an -ik suffix obligatorily co-occur with the definite article if they are separated by an overt pronominal poessessor.

*(a)	te	minden/bármelyik	virág-od
the	you	every/any	flower-2SG

’every/any flower of yours’

Source: Example provided by database editor (native speaker).

The quantifier mind 'all' always co-occurs with a definite article.

mind	a	három	könyv
all	the	three	book

’all the three books’

Source: Dékány 2021: 139

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