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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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"Definition Modeling: To model definitions." Generating Definitions With Little to No Semantics
CoRR, 2023 Definition Modeling, the task of generating definitions, was first proposed as a means to evaluate the semantic quality of word embeddings-a coherent lexical semantic representations of a word in context should contain all the information necessary to generate its definition.
Segonne, Vincent, Mickus, Timothee
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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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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 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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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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Definite Matrix Polynomials and their Linearization by Definite Pencils [PDF]
SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, 2009 Hyperbolic matrix polynomials are an important class of Hermitian matrix polynomials that contain overdamped quadratics as a special case. They share with definite pencils the spectral property that their eigenvalues are real and semisimple. We extend the definition of hyperbolic matrix polynomial in a way that relaxes the requirement of definiteness ...
Nicholas J. Higham +2 more
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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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