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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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¿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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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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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 Systems and Dialect Classification
Languages, 2021 In this article I explore how typological approaches can be used to construct novel classification schemes for Arabic dialects, taking the example of definiteness as a case study. Definiteness in Arabic has traditionally been envisioned as an essentially
Mike Turner
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The English past tense as a definite description
Glossa, 2023 There are two major groups of analyses in the literature on the English past tense; existential semantics with domain restriction, and the pronominal (i.e. anaphoric) analysis. In this paper, I discuss a group of data difficult for both of these analyses:
Ruoying Zhao
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Definiteness without determiners in German
Glossa, 2021 The paper investigates conditions for the bare occurrence of noun phrases in the topic position of specificational copula clauses in German. It is shown that this is a predicate position for non-referential NPs.
Ljudmila Geist
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