| 英文摘要 |
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the generic use of the English definite article the, the indefinite a(n), and the zero article Ø. A typical example of this kind of use of articles can be illustrated by the following example: (1) a. The dog is a mammal. b. A dog is a mammal. c. Ø dogs are mammals. In (la-c) we have a generic use of the, a generic use of a, and a generic use of Ø respectively. In (1), all the three sentences seem to express more or less the same idea and the three subject NPs all seem to refer to more or less the same thing, i.e. the species of dogs. This is different from the non-generic uses of articles. |
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