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Definiteness

In linguistics, definiteness is a semantic feature of noun phrases that distinguishes between referents or senses that are identifiable in a given context (definite noun phrases) and those that are not (indefinite noun phrases). The prototypical definite noun phrase picks out a unique, familiar, specific referent such as the sun or Australia, as opposed…

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GenitiveExistential clauseBasqueRomanianAlbanian
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LinguisticsSemantic featureNoun phrasesReferentsSenses
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Definiteness as a grammatical category

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Definiteness

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Edges55
Triples32
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.035714
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related to Further reading · 12
Definiteness → Aguilar-Guevara, Berlin, Croom Helm, Definite, Glottopedia, Hawkins, ISBN, Language Science Press, London, Open Access, Pozas Loyo, Vázquez-Rojas Maldonado
related to English · 5
Definiteness → Certain, Each, However, In English, Others
related to Definiteness as a grammatical category · 3
Definiteness → For, The, There
related to Other languages · 3
Definiteness → In Basque, In Danish, In Romanian
is a · 1
Definiteness → semantic feature of noun phrases that distinguishes between referents or senses that are identifiable in a given context
related to External links · 1
Definiteness → SMG

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definite languages noun indefinite marked article phrase mark danish suffixes english object specific japanese morphologically grammatical book phrases man hebrew

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Definitenessis asemantic feature of noun phrases that distinguishes between referents or senses that are identifiable in a given context0.90text
the sun or Australiainstance ofspecific referent0.80text
as opposed to indefinite examples like an idea or some fish.There is considerable variation in the expression of definiteness across languagesinstance ofspecific referent0.80text
and some languages such as Japanese do not generally mark itinstance ofspecific referent0.80text
so the same expression can be definite in some contextsinstance ofspecific referent0.80text
indefinite in othersinstance ofspecific referent0.80text
there isinstance ofIf a noun phrase can be put into an existential clause0.80text
demonstrativesinstance oflanguages of this kind may indicate definiteness by other means0.80text
Definitenessrelated to Definiteness as a grammatical categoryThere0.60section
Definitenessrelated to Definiteness as a grammatical categoryFor0.60section
Definitenessrelated to Definiteness as a grammatical categoryThe0.60section
Definitenessrelated to EnglishIn English0.60section

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