The two demonstratives are marked negatively for inherent number feature: [-Pl_Inh]. This means that the value of number is not inherent, but it must be assigned an absolute value--based on agreement.

Definiteness is an operator that referring to discourse and pragmatic situations. In a nutshell definiteness is a referent whose existence is commonly understood to both the speaker and the addressee.

In this column last week, I discussed the two types of determiners in English, namely the identifiers and quantifiers, and explained that determiners don’t constitute a formal part of speech but just ...