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Definiteness across languages [PDF]
, 2019 Definiteness has been a central topic in theoretical semantics since its modern foundation. However, despite its significance, there has been surprisingly scarce research on its cross-linguistic expression.
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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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Bulletin of the Section of LogicAccording to Russell, the definite article ‘the’ in a definite description ‘the F’ is used strictly in case there is a unique F and it is used loosely in case there is more than one F.
Bartosz Więckowski
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Defining definiteness in Turoyo [PDF]
, 2021 This paper puts forth an expanded typology of definiteness marking, which includes not only ‘strong’ and ‘weak’ but also ‘super-weak’. It also proposes a methodology for identifying ‘super-weak’ definites, and applies it to Ṭuroyo, an endangered Semitic ...
Yifrach, Miriam, Coppock, Elizabeth
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, 2019 We argue that definite noun phrases give rise to uniqueness inferences characterized by a pattern we call definiteness projection. Definiteness projection says that the uniqueness inference of a definite projects out unless there is an indefinite ...
Rothschild, Daniel, Mandelkern, Matthew
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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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, 2020 The aim of this paper is to examine the linguistic devices used to express definiteness in Chiyao, a Bantu language of Southern Tanzania, Southern Malawi, and north-western Mozambique. The analysis is guided by the familiarity theory of definiteness, and
Taji, Julius
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Possessive Constructions in Egyptian and Coptic. Distribution, definiteness, and the construct state phenomenon [PDF]
, 2010 In this paper, the distribution of Coptic possessive constructions is defined in terms of syntactic constraints: the construction involving the linking element N- requires the obligatory (and simple) definiteness of the possessed noun as well as the ...
Egedi, Barbara, Barbara Egedi
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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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Grammatical encoding of referentiality in the history of Hungarian [PDF]
, 2013 The paper demonstrates that the Old Hungarian article, although homophonous with the distal demonstrative it developed from, is a fully grammaticalized element encoding definiteness on a syntactic level.
Egedi, Barbara, Barbara Egedi
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