Have to find an answer tonight.....

• How do languages without Determiner marks references of definiteness or indefiniteness?
• Definiteness, is it an intrinsic lexical property of a word (like English Determiners or Assamese Classifiers) or is it determined by contextual pragmatics??
• Are Classifiers equivalent to Determiners both syntactically and semantically?

late night findings on 29th Jan 2010:

after going through a number of RPs and literature on Chinese Classifiers and Nominal class, list of questions have now been doubled!! quite surprised about this weird behavior of the quantifying expressions in Assamese, asking myself is it possible in my language? can I say this? well, have made some hypothesis, lets check them with Prof Veneeta Dayal tomorrow... hope its correct...