Why Rose is the Rose: On the use of definite articles in proper names
Ora Matushansky · 2006
The goal of this paper is to examine the use of definite articles with proper names, both cross-linguistically and intra-linguistically and provide a morpho-syntactic analysis of it. The first question to consider is whether article absence or article presence is the default case. The second question is when and how the alternative arises.