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Within the closed class, there are articles, which in English, always accompany a noun. An article that is indefinite indicates that the noun that the article is accompanying is a non specific noun that cannot be set apart from nouns with the same name. For example in the sentence: "''The'' girl got ''a'' doll", ''a'' is not specifying any particular doll, but ''the'' is specifying a particular girl.  
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Indefinite nouns refer to non-specific non-identifiable instances of the thing the noun describes. In English, indefinite nouns are usually marked with the indefinite article ''a'', (''a book'') or when plural appear with no article (''books''). In Gaelic, indefinites lack articles in both the singular and plural (taigh 'a house', taighean 'houses').
  
 
==See Also==
 
==See Also==
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*Crystal, David. (1997) ''A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics.'' Oxford, UK: Blackwell.
 
*Crystal, David. (1997) ''A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics.'' Oxford, UK: Blackwell.
 
*Matthews, P. H. (1997) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press..  
 
*Matthews, P. H. (1997) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press..  
 
  
 
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Latest revision as of 14:39, 10 June 2012

Indefinite nouns refer to non-specific non-identifiable instances of the thing the noun describes. In English, indefinite nouns are usually marked with the indefinite article a, (a book) or when plural appear with no article (books). In Gaelic, indefinites lack articles in both the singular and plural (taigh 'a house', taighean 'houses').

See Also

External Links

The link below takes you away from the Gaelic Wiki to Wikipedia. Since wikipedia pages can be edited by anyone, they often contain inaccurate information. So be careful!

References

  • Crystal, David. (1997) A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. Oxford, UK: Blackwell.
  • Matthews, P. H. (1997) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press..