Definiteness is an operator that referring to discourse and pragmatic situations. In a nutshell definiteness is a referent whose existence is commonly understood to both the speaker and the addressee.

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Waheed Ayisa Jayeola, Definiteness in the Zarma determiner phrase, Legon Journal of the Humanities, Vol. 30, No. 2 (2019), pp. 141-166 Free online reading for over 10 million articles Save and ...

More on Definiteness Markers: Interrogatives in Persian. Wayles Browne. Linguistic Inquiry. Vol. 1, No. 3 (Jul., 1970), pp. 359-363 (5 pages) Published By: The MIT Press. https://www. jstor.org ...

The Supreme Court recently “conclude[d] that the Federal Circuit’s formulation, which tolerates some ambiguous claims but not others, does not satisfy the statute’s definiteness requirement ...

Former chief justice of India U U Lalit has said that the judicature as a body and institution needs a uniform idea, a philosophy to show definiteness in its approach to restore people's trust in ...

As I suggested at the beginning of this post, I rather doubt that many members of the patent bar will find much of clarification in the Court’s opinion. I expect that most will agree that the Court is ...

Chennai: Former chief justice of India U U Lalit has said that the judicature as a body and institution needs a uniform idea, a philosophy to show definiteness in its approach to restore people ...