ABSTRACT
The definite and indefinite articles can receive a diversity of interpretations and one of the hardest problems in the explanation of the basic principles of determination and quantification is to construct a theory that can account for the different functions of these articles. 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 relation of the determiners to other parts of grammar, in particular relativisation and predication, is also investigated. Some attention is also given to quantifiers. Although the intercision of the non-default properties may be empty, they all have the generic subset in common. So, if we want to say something about these default properties, it does not matter which individuals we select from the reference superset, which is equal to the set of all members of the species.
