articlelessness

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articlelessness (uncountable)

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.

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