2006•Unpublished venueRequires access
Why Rose is the Rose: On the use of definite articles in proper names
Ora Matushansky
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Abstract
The goal of this paper is to examine the use of definite articles with proper names, both cross-linguistically and intra-linguistically and provide a morpho-syntactic analysis of it. The first question to consider is whether article absence or article presence is the default case. The second question is when and how the alternative arises.