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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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Qualified Definiteness

Bulletin of the Section of Logic
According 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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Apparentexceptionsto the definiteness effect in English [PDF]

Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2013
In this article, new data from a corpus study and experimental data concerning the definiteness effect in English there-sentences is presented. In the corpus data, we find noun phrases including both strong quantifiers like every and definite expressions.
Jutta M. Hartmann
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DECOMPOSING DEFINITENESS IN VIETNAMESE [PDF]

Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2021
This paper provides a detailed description of how Vietnamese encodes definiteness in the nominal phrase in the context of the crosslinguistic debate about the existence of lexical articles in classifier languages.
Trang Phan, Lam Quang Dong
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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.
Etxeberria, Urtzi, Vázquez-Rojas Maldonado, Violeta, Aguilar-Guevara, Ana, Schwarz, Florian, Williams, Adina, Strand, Linnea, Borik, Olga, Coppock, Elizabeth, Giannakidou, Anastasia, Machado de Sá, Thaís Maira, Pico, Maurice, Le Bruyn, Bert, Carlson, Greg N., Šereikaitė, Milena, Cunha Lima, Maria Luiza, Despić, Miloje, Espinal, M. Teresa, Pozas Loyo, Julia, Irani, Ava, Hall, David, Cisneros, Carlos, Tanenhaus, Michael K.   +21 more
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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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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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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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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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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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