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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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Definiteness and determinacy [PDF]
, 2015 This paper distinguishes between definiteness and determinacy. Definiteness is seen as a morphological category which, in English, marks a (weak) uniqueness presupposition, while determinacy consists in denoting an individual.
Beaver, David, Coppock, Elizabeth
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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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Positive Definiteness and Semi-Definiteness of Even Order Symmetric Cauchy Tensors [PDF]
, 2014 Motivated by symmetric Cauchy matrices, we define symmetric Cauchy tensors and their generating vectors in this paper. Hilbert tensors are symmetric Cauchy tensors.
Chen, Haibin, Qi, Liqun
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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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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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One-Step Recurrences for Stationary Random Fields on the Sphere [PDF]
, 2016 Recurrences for positive definite functions in terms of the space dimension have been used in several fields of applications. Such recurrences typically relate to properties of the system of special functions characterizing the geometry of the underlying
Beatson, R. K., Castell, W. zu
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Strictly Positive Definite Kernels on a Product of Spheres II [PDF]
, 2016 We present, among other things, a necessary and sufficient condition for the strict positive definiteness of an isotropic and positive definite kernel on the cartesian product of a circle and a higher dimensional sphere.
Guella, Jean C. +2 more
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'Most' vs. 'the most' in languages where 'the more' means 'most' [PDF]
, 2018 This paper focuses on languages in which a superlative interpretation is typically indicated merely by a combination of a definiteness marker with a comparative marker, including French, Spanish, Italian, Romanian, and Greek ('DEF+CMP languages ...
Coppock, Elizabeth, Strand, Linnea
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Determination and modification: Topology of prenominal attributes in Lithuanian
Kalbotyra, 2018 [full article and abstract in English] This paper offers a description of the linear structure of the definite Lithuanian noun phrase (NP) with an emphasis on prenominal attributes.
Ringailė Trakymaitė
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