Definiteness is an operator that referring to discourse and pragmatic situations. In a nutshell definiteness is a referent whose existence is commonly understood to both the speaker and the addressee.

This one’s going to be a bit tough to explain, but here goes. Spanish has four forms of the definite article, our “the” (el, la, los, las) and four forms of each of the three demonstrative adjectives, ...

In the English as in most but not all languages (i.e. Chinese) number can be extracted from the noun leaving a lexical-propositional form of the noun. From book and books we get object predicate: 1.

Use the definite article in French for expressions of liking, generalities, school subjects, languages, countries, body parts, time phrases and to turn an adjective into a noun. The indefinite article ...

This one’s going to be a bit tough to explain, but here goes. Spanish has four forms of the definite article, our “the” (el, la, los, las) and four forms of each of the three demonstrative adjectives, ...