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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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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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¿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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An ℋ-tensor-based criteria for testing the positive definiteness of multivariate homogeneous forms
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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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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The accusative/genitive alternation in Bosnian/ Croatian/Serbian
Glossa, 2022 There is an ongoing discussion in the literature on how the meaning conveyed by (in)definite determiners is expressed in languages which lack an (in)definite article system (see e.g., Chierchia 1998; Dayal 2004; Deal 2017). One proposal is that in Slavic
Agata Renans, Halima Husić
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Vestnik za Tuje Jezike, 2021 The article focuses on the relationship between postmodifiers in the form of noun phrases, relative and content clauses, and the use of articles or pro-adjectives in the nominal heads.
Mirjam Premrl Podobnik
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The category of definiteness and its investigation in Lithuanian linguistics
Lietuvių Kalba, 2008 The paper analyses the concept of definiteness and the semantics and formal expression of the category of definiteness. It also offers an overview of the concept of the category and its investigation in Lithuanian linguistics.
Birutė Spraunienė
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