The Extension of the Definite Article in the Subclass of Abstract Nouns in Middle and Early New English.
Journal Title: Вісник Житомирського державного університету імені Івана Франка - Year 2016, Vol 84, Issue 2
Abstract
The process of extension of the definite article in the subclass of abstract nouns in Middle English and Early New English period is studied in this work. This usage of the definite article is accounted for by the emergence of the indefinite article. When binary opposition comes into existence the definite and the indefinite articles start being used to mark the actual division of the sentence. Semes of giveness and novelty take up as important a place as semes of definiteness and indefiniteness in the semantic field of the articles, seme of giveness belongs to the semantic field of the definite article and seme of novelty belongs to the semantic field of the indefinite article. Semantic and functional loading and distribution of the definite article in the subclass of abstract nouns is analyzed in the given article. The article also contains numerous illustrations of the usage of the definite article in the subclass of abstract nouns.
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L. Ye. Sydorovych
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