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Romanian definite article revisited
Linguistica, 1999 I shall attempt to resume a long, almost endless discussion: the origin of the Romanian definite article. Any grammar of Romanian or any comparative grammar the Romance languages (e. g.
Sorin Paliga
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Definite article use with generic reference in German: an empirical study
Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 2015 This study is concerned with the distribution of the definite article in German with plural nominals that have a generic reading . In Standard German, genericity is typically expressed by bare nouns (Tiger sind gefährlich ‘Tigers are dangerous’).
Barton Dagmar +2 more
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Embodiment and Gestural Simulation of the Definite Article
SAGE OpenIn this study, we examined mental simulation and gestural embodiment of the definite article ( the ) by analyzing gestures produced by presenters talking about a variety of subjects.
Omid Khatin-Zadeh +3 more
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Il sistema dell’articolo nelle Alpi Occidentali
Géolinguistique, 2022 Our contribution aims to present and describe the article system in the Occitan and Francoprovençal Galloromance varieties straddling the watershed between France, Italy and Switzerland.
Paolo Benedetto Mas, Aline Pons
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Les constructions de type Nc-Npr avec et sans déterminant :comparaison français-allemand
Corela, 2023 This French and German contrastive study is about constructions made of a noun phrase (sometimes limited to a single noun) and a name, such as Le capitaine Haddock / Kapitän Haddock ; l’oncle Charles /Onkel Karl ; Le poète Gottfried Benn /der Dichter ...
Stéphanie Benoist
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Variation in the Occurrence and Interpretation of Articles in Malagasy: A Comparison with Italian
Languages, 2022 In languages that have a definite article but no indefinite article, the definite article typically maps to definites, and the bare noun maps to indefinites.
Ileana Paul +2 more
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Grammaticalization of the Definite Article in Armenian
Armeniaca, 2022 The Classical Armenian definite article system is unusual for Indo-European, but paralleled in prehistoric common Kartvelian. It may represent an intermediate stage in grammaticalization between demonstratives and definite articles.
Hodgson, Katherine
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Looking for the Articloid: Ille and ipse in the Itinerarium Egeriae
Kalbotyra, 2022 This paper examines the status of the Latin demonstrative ille and the intensifier ipse, which are the sources of definite articles in modern Romance languages.
Antanas Keturakis
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Glossa, 2021 The aim of the present study is to follow the development of the suffixed definite article in North Germanic, in particular taking into account the unique reference expressed by the nascent article.
Alicja Piotrowska, Dominika Skrzypek
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On the Use of Articles in English and in Hungarian
Acta Academiae Beregsasiensis, Philologica, 2023 The English article system presents many problems for non-native speakers of English, thus to Hungarian learners of English as well, and due to the influence of the mother tongue they commit many errors in using them.
Éva Kovács
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