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Zero article. The zero article is the absence of an article. In languages having a definite article, the lack of an article specifically indicates that the noun is indefinite. Linguists interested in X-bar theory causally link zero articles to nouns lacking a determiner. In English, the zero article rather than the indefinite is used with plurals and mass nouns, although the word "some" can be used as an indefinite plural article.

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Definitiveness and Indefinitiveness

Definiteness is traditionally defined as a semantic - grammatical category which reflects differences in the extra-linguistic reality. Every language disposes of certain devices to expressing definiteness (provided that it is grammaticalised); these are called determiners. The prototypical means of definiteness in English are constituted by the definite article and demonstratives, possessives, quantifiers and wh-words; the core means of indefiniteness include the indefinite article or its variation – the zero article. To put it from another perspective: the essential function of the articles in English as a sub-type of determiners is to express the category of definiteness or indefiniteness.

The matter under discussion has traditionally been the semantic interpretation of definiteness [10].

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