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Vulnerability in processing definiteness: The case of heritage Turkish [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Definiteness has been argued to be difficult for language learners to acquire because the correct usage of definiteness requires the integration of external interfaces that involve linguistic and non-linguistic information.
Serkan Uygun
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An ℋ-tensor-based criteria for testing the positive definiteness of multivariate homogeneous forms [PDF]
Open Mathematics, 2022 A positive definite homogeneous multivariate form plays an important role in the field of optimization, and positive definiteness of the form can be identified by a special structured tensor.
Bai Dongjian, Wang Feng
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¿Es el artículo una unidad pragmática? Acerca de la teoría de la definitud y la referencia
Studia Romanica Posnaniensia, 2021 In this paper I intend to review some theories of the article, paying attention to the relations they establish between reference and +/–definiteness of a noun phrase (NP).
Janusz Pawlik
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Glossa, 2022 This paper posits a distinction between plain definite DPs and indexed definite DPs: only the latter have a syntactically represented referential index, an idxP, in [Spec, DP].
Peter Jenks
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Ergo, An Open Access Journal of Philosophy, 2023 Epistemicism associates vagueness with ignorance produced by semantic plasticity: the shiftiness of intensions in our language resulting from small changes in usage.
Aleksander Domosławski
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Updating the typology of definiteness: Evidence from bare nouns in Shan
Glossa, 2021 This paper demonstrates that bare nouns in Shan (Tai-Kadai) can express both unique and anaphoric definiteness, a distinction first noted by Schwarz (2009).
Mary Moroney
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Interactions between Differential Object Marking and Definiteness in Standard and Heritage Romanian
Languages, 2023 The observation that not all grammatical realizations in heritage languages can be attributed to transfer from a dominant language has been emphasized in several recent works. This paper provides further arguments in this direction from heritage Romanian.
Monica Alexandrina Irimia
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Definiteness Marking in Earlier Stages of Arabic
Annali di Ca’ Foscari: Serie Orientale, 2021 This study investigates definiteness marking in earlier stages of Arabic, based on a corpus of Classical Arabic idols' names attested in technical prose. The latter mentions not only Arabic idols, the names of which bear definite markers, but also the
Grande, Francesco
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Definitive chemoradiotherapy [PDF]
Journal of Thoracic Disease, 2017 Definitive chemoradiotherapy (dCRT) is reflecting a treatment standard in oesophageal cancer. For irresectable localised tumours and for inoperable patients, dCRT can change the treatment intent from palliative to curative. In patients with squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), in particular in those of cervical location, dCRT is a proper alternative for ...
Stahl, Michael, Budach, Wilfried
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Endophoric definiteness: An analysis based on Romanian data
Kalbotyra, 2018 [full article and abstract in English] Definiteness as a grammatical or pragmatic category is usually explained via the act of reference. In this spirit, a definite noun phrase is said to ensure that the hearer can identify the entity to which the NP ...
Antanas Keturakis
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