ABSTRACT
The purpose of this chapter is to ask why the syntactically and semantically related sentences should exhibit different articles. The chapter argues that underlying indefinite status can be proven using co-occurrence restrictions holding between articles and various noun-modifiers. The majority of the contributions focus on the semantics of the definite and indefinite articles, leading into discussions of anaphoricness, specificness, opacity and transparency, referentiality and attributiveness and genericness. The chapterexplains why the output of Predicational Relative Formation should be definite rather than indefinite. It argues that Algernon is a restrictive modifier on name, since it distinguishes this name from others. The actual formalisation of our grammaticality explanation within a generative grammar poses some interesting problems for the integration of syntax and semantics. In order to avoid this problem it would be necessary to keep the formulation of Predicational Relative Formation as in, introducing the definite article syntactically.
