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

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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The emergence of the greek definite article [PDF]

, 2020
Το άρθρο εξετάζει την κατανομή, τη σημασιολογία και το γραμματικό καθεστώς του οριστικού άρθρου στην ελληνική. Υποστηρίζεται ότι το οριστικό άρθρο της νέας ελληνικής είναι ένα άρθρο δευτέρου σταδίου (σύμφωνα με την τυπολογία του Greenberg 1978), το οποίο
Giannoulopoulou, Gianoula
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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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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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The definite article in recent grammatical theory [PDF]

, 1976
The definite article is more difficult to define than the native speaker of English might realize. I propose to survey various treatments of the definite article, noting their strengths and weaknesses, in an attempt to reach an understanding of the ...
Schuller, Rhonda
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English Transliteration of Arabic Personal Names with the Definite Article {al-} on Facebook

, 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 ...
Al-Jarf, Reima
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Memorized Definite Article [PDF]

, 1981
A speaker of Serbo-Croatian has nothing in his language to signal the necessity of using the definite article when trying to speak or write English. This absence of the article concept makes it hard for speakers of Serbo-Croatian to ever master the ...
Spalatin, Leonardo
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Acquisition of the nongeneric use of the definite article “the” by Egyptian EFL learners [PDF]

مجلة كلية التربية فى العلوم التربوية, 2017
This study investigates the acquisition of the nongeneric use of the definite article “the” by Egyptian EFL learners over a period of eight months. Sixty students at two levels of language proficiency (low, high) from the English Department, Faculty of ...
Aly Shokry Aly Abdel Kader Kader
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