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Natural Syntax: The English indefinite article [PDF]
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 2011 Natural Syntax: The English indefinite article The framework of this paper is Natural Syntax initiated by the author in the tradition of (morphological) naturalness as established by Wolfgang U. Dressler and †Willi Mayerthaler. Natural Syntax is a developing deductive theory.
Orešnik Janez
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The Kashubian indefinite marker jeden ‘one’ and its grammaticalisation [PDF]
Južnoslovenski Filolog, 2021 This article analyses the use of the indefinite marker jeden ‘one’ in contemporary Kashubian, which has often been treated simply as an indefinite article in previous studies. A synchronic description has been presented in the first part of this
Nomachi Motoki Y.
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Il sistema dell’articolo nelle Alpi Occidentali
Géolinguistique, 2022 Our contribution aims to present and describe the article system in the Occitan and Francoprovençal Galloromance varieties straddling the watershed between France, Italy and Switzerland.
Paolo Benedetto Mas, Aline Pons
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Number-neutral indefinite objects in Brazilian Portuguese as a case of semantic incorporation
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2022 This paper provides empirical evidence for a verb-noun construction in Brazilian Portuguese, which has not yet been analyzed in the linguistic literature.
Albert Wall
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On the Use of Articles in English and in Hungarian
Acta Academiae Beregsasiensis, Philologica, 2023 The English article system presents many problems for non-native speakers of English, thus to Hungarian learners of English as well, and due to the influence of the mother tongue they commit many errors in using them.
Éva Kovács
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The Forms of the Indefinite Article in Eastern Armenian
Armeniaca, 2022 This paper studies the formal distinction of the indefinite article from the quantifier ‘one’ in Early and pre-Modern Armenian texts by three 18‑19th century authors as well as in a colloquial Modern Eastern Armenian dialogue.
Sargsyan, Hasmik
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Variation in the Occurrence and Interpretation of Articles in Malagasy: A Comparison with Italian
Languages, 2022 In languages that have a definite article but no indefinite article, the definite article typically maps to definites, and the bare noun maps to indefinites.
Ileana Paul +2 more
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The article a(n) in English quantifying expressions: A default marker of cardinality
Glossa, 2020 Certain English quantificational expressions feature what appears to be an indefinite article, e.g. a bunch, a few, a hundred. These can be divided into three types of quantifying expressions: pseudopartitives (a lot, a bunch, a ton), article-requiring ...
Heidi Klockmann
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Indefiniteness in Francoprovençal. A Real Bare de? New Hints from the Consonantal Liaison
Géolinguistique, 2022 In Romance languages the indefinite articles are generally the result of prepositions + determiners (P + D) contraction, de + definite Article, combined with nominals within indefinite Determiners Phrases (DPs).
Michela Russo
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A Plural Indefinite Article in Heritage Greek: The Role of Register
Languages, 2022 This paper investigates the use of kati “some” by Greek Heritage Speakers (HSs) in comparison to monolinguals. While all Greek determiners are marked for gender, case, and number, and agree with their nominal complement, kati is an exception, as it lacks
Artemis Alexiadou +2 more
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