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Conlangery #76: Definiteness
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What Was I Going to Say About Definiteness Tricks?
Linguists suspect that definite articles are more common in languages without case marking. In English abstract concepts tend not to take articles at all, but in Spanish they often take a definite article. The semantics of a word can really change from language language how it interacts with definiteness and marking in general.
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