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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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, 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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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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, 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 +3 more
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The Origins and Development of the Definite Article in Egyptian-Coptic
Studies in Ancient Art and Civilization, 2014 The first appearance of the emphatic demonstratives pA/tA/nA in northern Egyptian letters of the 6th Dynasty and their absence from southern Egyptian sources indicates the growing difference between the language variants spoken in these broadly defined ...
Maxim Kupreyev
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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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Observations on non-possessive usages of personal markers (possessive suffixes) in Nganasan
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2015 This paper aims at a systematic overview of the non-possessive usages of possessive (relational) suffixes in Nganasan. In the analyzed corpus, the non-anchoring usage types of the 3rd person suffix (including the direct anaphoric and situational usages),
Réka Zayzon
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Languages, 2018 The present study explores two morphological differences in direct object expression between Spanish and Catalan: Differential Object Marking (DOM), and the accusative clitics el /l/ vs. ho /u/.
Silvia Perpiñán
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Reconstructing enzyme evolution by protein engineering
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Natural enzyme evolution can be retraced by protein engineering methods such as directed evolution, rational design, and ancestral sequence reconstruction. These approaches reveal how enzymes emerged from ligand‐binding scaffolds, developed varying substrate preferences, formed oligomeric complexes, adapted to environmental changes, and evolved novel ...
Lukas Drexler +2 more
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The Realization of (In)definiteness in Russian
Poljarnyj Vestnik: Norwegian Journal of Slavic Studies, 1999 How are indefiniteness and definiteness realized formally in Russian? This article discusses the question with regard to word order, case-marking and pronouns.
Tore Nesset
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