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The BMJ, the definite article [PDF]

open access: yesBMJ, 2014
A new name, logo, website design, and homepage address (thebmj.com) The journal will be 175 years old next year. During that time it has had four names: the Provincial Medical and Surgical Journal (1840-52), the Association Medical Journal (1853-56), the British Medical Journal (1857-1988), and BMJ (1988-2014).
David, Payne   +3 more
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ENGLISH L2 DEFINITE ARTICLE INSTRUCTION AT THE SERBIAN L1 TERTIARY LEVEL

open access: yesFacta Universitatis. Series, Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education, 2020
The study has two main goals: to assess in part the effects of current definite article instruction at the tertiary level in the Serbian L1/English L2 environment, and to analyze whether the use of the definite article in English could be represented by ...
Marta Veličković
doaj   +1 more source

Task Motivation and Transfer of Learning across Tasks: The Case of Learning the English Definite Article [PDF]

open access: yesIssues 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
doaj   +1 more source

La surdétermination du sens par l’emploi abusif de l’article défini pluriel dans la presse écrite ivoirienne

open access: yesVoix Plurielles, 2013
Les règles d’usage de l’article défini n’empêchent pas des dérives dans l’utilisation qu’en font bien des usagers. Le cas de et dans la presse écrite ivoirienne augure d’une stratégie de communication. De fait, l’usage abusif de l’article défini pluriel
Kouakou Kouman Fodjo
doaj   +3 more sources

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
doaj   +1 more source

On the presence and absence of definite articles with anthroponyms in rural varieties of Madeiran Portuguese

open access: yesJournal 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
doaj   +2 more sources

A Pedagogical Perspective on the Definite and the Indefinite Article in the Romanian Language. Challenges for Foreign Learners

open access: yesVerbum, 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
doaj   +1 more source

The definite article in Votic: the process of grammaticalisation

open access: yesEesti 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
doaj   +1 more source

Optionality in the Expression of Indefiniteness: A Pilot Study on Piacentine

open access: yesLanguages, 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
doaj   +1 more source

A corpus analysis of variable definite article with personal proper names across three varieties of Spanish

open access: yesIsogloss, 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
doaj   +1 more source

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