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.

It’s a billboard custom-tailored to grammar buffs. “Every day we help people get back to their everyday,” proclaims the ad for Keck Medical Center of USC. In that single sentence, the copy writer does ...

In this episode we will focus on the use of word form groups such as noun, verb and preposition phrases. Then, we will look at some words that can be used as both nouns and verbs, and learn how to ...

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.