Ute Bohnacker, Determiner Phrases and the Debate on Functional Categories in Early Child Language, Language Acquisition, Vol. 6, No. 1 (1997), pp. 49-90 ...

Serbo-Croatian (SC) is a language without articles, probably the only category of speech that has uncontroversially and crosslinguistically been argued to occupy the head of the Determiner Phrase (DP) ...

Quite the determiner It’s frequently used and when it precedes a noun, it defines something specific.

It is known that in the silkworm (Bombyx mori), males have two Z sex chromosomes whereas females have Z and W and the W chromosome has a dominant role in female determination; here a single female ...