zero article

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zero article

noun zero articles

The non-appearance of an article before a noun. The zero article is the oddball of the English article system. For one thing, it's a newcomer. […] The book argues that the zero article is an artifact of the structural paradigm of language research that has outlived the heyday of the theory that has spawned it and remains in use merely as a fig le

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noun non-appearance of an article

中文	零冠詞 /零冠词 língguàncí
Português	artigo zero
Français	article zéro
Deutsch	Nullartikel

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"zero article." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/zero%20article. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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zero article. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/zero%20article

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"zero article." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/zero%20article.

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@misc{zero_article_2026,
  title = {zero article},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/zero%20article},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}