Andreas Johansson said:
> Quoting "Mark P. Line" <mark@...>:
>>
>> I'd expect the referents of most NP's to be recoverable from
>> context (i.e. to be definite). So it wouldn't surprise me to find a
>> natlang in which only NP's whose referents are *not* so recoverable
>> (i.e. are indefinite) are marked.
>
> That's true, but I was thinking from a more typological angle; my
> impression is
> that the definite is usually at least as marked as the indefinite. Is this
> true?
I suspect that Christopher Lyons covers what is known about that in his
book, but I don't have access to a copy.
-- Mark