The Myth of the Zero Article

The zero article is a staple element of any description of English article usage from advanced research publications down to student grammars, but there has been very little inquiry into its meaning and its other properties. There are copious amounts of publications dealing with the definite and indefinite articles but none about the zero article.

Berezowski investigates the origin of the concept of the zero article and shows that it has roots both in structural linguistics of the 1940s and...