What is an article?

An article is a member of a small class of determiners that identify a noun's

• definite or indefinite reference, and
• new or given status.

• The definite article the
• The indefinite article a/an

• What is a determiner?

Crystal 1980 32

Hartmann and Stork 1972 18

Pei and Gaynor 1954 18

Mish 1991 105

Context for this page:

• Concept module: article
• In overview module: Glossary (Linguistics): A
• In modular book: Glossary of linguistic terms, by Eugene E. Loos (general editor), Susan Anderson (editor), Dwight H., Day, Jr. (editor), Paul C. Jordan (editor), and J. Douglas Wingate (editor)
• In bookshelf: Linguistics

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