articloid

plural articloids

1. grammarmarkers of linguistic definiteness that have not become grammaticalized, or incorporated into the grammar of the language

   The more important dimension is regularity in article usage before the articloid stage can be considered to be overcome effectively.

   1987, Dieter Wanner, The Development of Romance Clitic Pronouns: From Latin to Old Romance, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 90

   2 more examples

   Think of the floating use of the definite article, which appears early in Latin texts in the shape of ‘articloid’, but which is missing, for instance, in the Strasbourg Oaths

   1996, Mart Van Uytfanghe, Latin and the Romance languages in the Early Middle Ages, Pennsylvania State University Press, →ISBN, page 123

   The main difference between them is that definite articles and definite articloids perform only the function of informing that the referent is already accessible in the CDS, whereas demonstratives also provide a crucial piece of information to ensure this accessibility.

   2022 December 30, Antanas Keturakis, “Looking for the Articloid: Ille and ipse in the Itinerarium Egeriae”, in Kalbotyra, volume 75, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 57–81