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Are there three variants of the definite article in Macedonian? [PDF]
Južnoslovenski Filolog, 2006 According to the Macedonian grammatical tradition there are three variants of the definite article in Standard Macedonian as well as in the majority of Macedonian dialects. The author argues that such an interpretation has a purely formal motivation.
Topolinjska Zuzana
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Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2023 European Portuguese (EP) generally manifests a systematic use of the definite article with anthroponyms in communicative immediacy (in the sense of Koch & Oesterreicher, 1986). In Brazilian Portuguese (BP), there is a well-documented variation in the
Yoselin Henriques Pestana
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Task Motivation and Transfer of Learning across Tasks: The Case of Learning the English Definite Article [PDF]
Issues in Language Teaching, 2021 Task motivation has recently gained prominence in second language (L2) research. However, its potential effects on the transfer of learning across tasks have not been investigated.
Saeed Safdari
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Verbum, 2019 All Romance languages have developed the definite and the indefinite article via the Vulgar Latin (Classical Latin did not use articles), the language of the Roman colonists. According to Joseph H.
Ovidiu Ivancu
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The definite article in Votic: the process of grammaticalisation
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2015 The paper is devoted to the grammaticalisation of the deictic pronoun se into a definite article in Votic. The author traces this process diachronically demonstrating the results of her studies with the examples of a folktale written down by August ...
Tatiana Agranat
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Optionality in the Expression of Indefiniteness: A Pilot Study on Piacentine
Languages, 2022 Optionality is an issue within the minimalist theory of language, in which the principle of the “last resort” does not admit competing options to express the same meaning.
Luca Molinari
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Isogloss, 2023 It has been shown that the presence of a definite article (DA) prior to a personal name (PN) varies not only across languages, but also across varieties of the same language.
Robin Tieperman, Brendan Regan
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Prolínání mentálních prostorů v diskurzu a komunikační model: Nominální grounding v češtině, angličtině a španělštině [PDF]
Časopis pro Moderní Filologii, 2022 This paper presents an integration of mental spaces theory and the notion of grounding. The aim is to present a communication model based on the idea of blending of mental spaces that can be used to analyse an ongoing discourse and represent the ...
Dana Kratochvílová
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La quantification universelle en trio: tous les, chaque et tout [PDF]
Studii de Lingvistica, 2011 This article revisits the well-known question of the quantification made by chaque, tout and tous les, that express totality or universal quantification, by focusing on a preliminary question: should we group the three quantifiers or not? Most frequently
Georges Kleiber
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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’).
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