Definiteness
Definition:
Definiteness is a category concerned with the grammaticalization of identifiability and nonidentifiability of referents on the part of a speaker or addressee.
Discussion:
Definiteness is frequently expressed by:
- articles
- affixes having functions similar to articles
This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library. Version 5.0 published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 2003.