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Adjectival modification and multiple determiners [PDF]
, 2008 The present paper deals with the distribution of the definite determiner and certain related aspects of adjectival modification in Greek DPs. As (1) shows, determiners in Greek DPs precede adjectives and adjectives precede nouns.
Alexiadou, Artemis, Wilder, Chris
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MEI AND DOU IN CHINESE: A TALE OF TWO QUANTIFIERS [PDF]
Taiwan Journal of Linguistics, 2011 This study addresses two outstanding puzzles about the two well-known quantifiers mei and dou in Chinese: (i) the indefinite/definite asymmetry when mei leads the subject NP: dou is not needed when there is an indefinite or a reflexive object within the ...
Qiong-peng Luo
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Emoji-based reactions to the said construction in spanish and english
Cadernos de Linguística, 2021 The said construction (SC), a relatively common but understudied standard English construction, is usually characterized by the use of said in place of a determiner, followed by a noun (N2), typically given (in some sense) and licensed by an antecedent ...
Alicia Stevers
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Adolescents with high‐risk cancer face complex developmental, psychosocial, and ethical challenges that extend beyond disease‐directed treatment. Although international recommendations exist for communication, psychosocial care, pediatric palliative care, survivorship, and shared decision‐making, these have largely evolved within ...
Johanna M. C. Blom +15 more
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Determiners as modified pronouns
Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación, 2023 This paper1 challenges the notion that the structure of the Determiner Phrase (DP) contains a virtual category which answers for DPs’ referential and anaphoric uses.
Marta Luján
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With or without articles? A comparison of article-like determiners in Estonian and Finnish
Lähivõrdlusi, 2017 In this paper, we compare the use and functions of definite and indefinite article-like determiners in Estonian and Finnish. Our main aim is to explore whether the factors that explain the choice of particular determiner forms are similar in Estonian and
Helen Hint +2 more
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Proportionality and conservativity: the view from Turkish
Glossa, 2022 Proportional numerals like 70% and two-thirds, which express a relation between two quantities, give rise to distinct interpretations inside different constructions.
İsa Kerem Bayırlı
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Children with sickle cell anemia (SCA) in low‐income settings are at risk of severe malnutrition, but optimal nutritional management has not been established. We evaluated an intensified ready‐to‐use therapeutic food (RUTF) regimen in children with persistent severe malnutrition after initial treatment and assessed whether early ...
Safiya Gambo +9 more
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No 'No' : on the crosslinguistic absence of a determiner 'No' [PDF]
, 2009 This paper concerns the semantics of determiners. I point out that the currently dominant generalized quantifiers analysis of determiners has certain deficiencies.
Sauerland, Uli
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, 2018 Determiners are a nominal syntactic category distinct from both adjectives and nouns; they constitute a functional (aka closed or ‘minor’) category and they are typically located high inside the nominal phrasal structure.
Phoevos Panagiotidis
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