9 Article systems

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. List of Tables XI
4. List of Figures XIII
5. Acknowledgments XV
6. Abbreviations XVII
7. 1 Introduction 1
8. 2 Articles as a crosslinguistic category 32
9. 3 Referentiality and types of articles 57
10. 4 The distinction between articles and related markers 108
11. 5 Articles in the definite domain 139
12. 6 Articles in the indefinite domain 235
13. 7 Domain-crossing articles 289
14. 8 Articles: crosslinguistic trends and variation 323
15. 9 Article systems 357
16. 10 Conclusions 410
17. Language Index 421
18. Bibliography 423