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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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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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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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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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With or without the definite article
Approaches To Hungarian, 2020 The issue. Hungarian has several strategies to code possessors anaphoric to an antecedent in the embedding clause. These include not only covert (1a) and overt (1b) personal pronouns qua possessors, but also the primary reflexive (1c) and its more ...
György Rakosi
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The definite article in Romance expletives and long weak definites
Glossa, 2017 This paper focuses on some issues involving expletive articles and long weak definites in Romance (mainly Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese and Catalan), in comparison to DPs that elicit a strong reading.
M.Teresa Espinal, Sonia Cyrino
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Studying variation in Romanian: deletion of the definite article -l in continuous speech
Linguistics Vanguard: Multimodal Online Journal, 2019 Studies of variation in continuous speech converge towards the conclusion that in everyday speech, words are often produced with reduced variants: some segments are shortened or completely absent. We describe an initiative to automatically exploit spoken
Ioana Vasilescu +2 more
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Names, 2020 This study investigates the grammatical behavior of English country names based on corpus linguistic evidence. An overview of the basic patterns of definite article use with country names as commonly described in English reference grammars and of the ...
Heiko Motschenbacher
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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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English Transliteration of Arabic Personal Names with the Definite Article {al-} on Facebook
British Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2022 This study aimed to explore how native speakers of Arabic transliterate first and last names containing the definite article {al-} to English on Facebook; what variations exist in transliterating the definite article itself, which is usually attached to ...
Reima Al-Jarf
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