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.

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.

This article provides an analysis of the prepositional phrases of Maliseet-Passamaquoddy, an Eastern Algonquian language of New Brunswick and Maine. It establishes that these phrases may function as ...