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Romanian definite article revisited [PDF]

open access: yesLinguistica, 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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A Longitudinal Exploratory Case-Series Comparing Morphological Trajectories in Four Early-Implanted Greek-Cypriot Children and Eight Typically Hearing Peers [PDF]

open access: yesBrain Sciences
Objectives: This paper explores whether deaf Greek-Cypriot (GC) children with cochlear implants (CIs) begin using the various forms of the definite article (DA) of the Greek language similarly to their typically hearing peers in terms of order of ...
Elena Yiangou   +2 more
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Are there three variants of the definite article in Macedonian? [PDF]

open access: yesJužnoslovenski 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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Embodiment and Gestural Simulation of the Definite Article

open access: yesSAGE Open
In 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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Emergence of New Predictors Projecting the Definite Article Variability: Evidence from Nigerian English [PDF]

open access: yesBaltic Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture, 2018
An important syntactic system in the noun phrase (NP) is the definite article system. The definite article system in emerging varieties of English, such as Nigerian and Indian, have been shown to manifest varying degrees of variability in their usages ...
Mayowa Akinlotan
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Il sistema dell’articolo nelle Alpi Occidentali

open access: yesGéolinguistique, 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

open access: yesCorela, 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

open access: yesLanguages, 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

open access: yesArmeniaca, 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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Familiar vs. unique in a diachronic perspective. Case study of the rise of the definite article in North Germanic

open access: yesGlossa, 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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