articlelessness

English

Etymology

From articleless +‎ -ness.

Noun

articlelessness (uncountable)

1. Absence of a grammatical article.
   • 1992, Daniel Halpern, editor, Antaeus:

     "Saturday" extends articlelessness into the sensations of a young working-class woman and the territory of his great second novel, Living.

   • 2012, Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen, Big Events, Small Clauses: The Grammar of Elaboration, page 75:

     This method, however, does not do justice to the articlelessness of the Norwegian adjuncts, the fact that in this language, as also to a large extent in German and to some extent in English (cf. the locution with bowed head), the A + N constituents appear to be NPs or bare DPs.

Translations

Translations

• Finnish: artikkelittomuus
• German: Artikellosigkeit f
• Polish: cecha tego, co jest bezrodzajnikowe (non-idiomatic)