Cooccurrence of Demonstrative and Definite Article (Feature 31)

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Feature Annotation

This feature asks whether noun phrases with adnominal demonstratives (e.g. ‘this book’, ‘that house’) also contain a definite article. “Definite article” is defined as in Feature 28, and "demonstrative" as in Feature 5 (see also APiCS Glossary, definite article). If the language has no normal definite article, please choose value 4.
Noun phrases with an adnominal demonstrative are necessarily definite, so the definite article is redundant. Thus, some languages with an otherwise obligatory definite article (e.g. English) do not allow the article to occur when a demonstrative is present (*this the book, value 2), but others allow or require the definite article to cooccur with the demonstrative (e.g. Haitian Creole kandida sa a [candidate this the] ‘this candidate’, value 1).
If your language allows both cooccurrence and non-cooccurrence, please select several values, corresponding to different demonstrative constructions. There may well be a more or less subtle difference between the two patterns, e.g. of an information-structural sort. The nature of the difference is ignored for the value assignment, but can be described in the comments field.

Additional remarks

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Values

Value		Value Annotation
1	Demonstrative cooccurs with definite article	Haitian kandida sa a [candidate this the] ‘this candidate’
2	Demonstrative does not cooccur with definite article	English this book (*this the book)
3	Definite article is identical to a demonstrative, hence no cooccurrence	In some languages, a demonstrative is also used as a definite article (e.g. German das Buch ‘that book’, das Buch ‘the book’). In such cases, cooccurrence is very unlikely. (If the two cooccur after all, please choose value 1, not this one.)
4	No definite article exists	E.g. Tok Pisin, Cape Verdean Creole
5	Other	(Please give details in the “General comments” field.)

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