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The Functional-Cognitive Characteristics of Interrogative Utterances in Modern Ukrainian

open access: yesCognitive Studies | Études cognitives, 2021
The Functional-Cognitive Characteristics of Interrogative Utterances in Modern Ukrainian The article presents a comprehensive multifaceted description of interrogative sentences in terms of the interaction of their semantic-syntactic (syntaxeme) and ...
Maryna Navalna   +2 more
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An Historical Novel or a Historical Novel? A Case of Variation in Spelling

open access: yesELOPE, 2005
The form of the indefinite article before h is not an easy matter, as mentioned among others, by Jespersen, in A Modern English Grammar. The existence today of written corpora and other online resources allows for a wider and, hopefully, a more reliable
Rodica Calciu
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Considérations didactiques sur l’emploi et l’omission des déterminants dans cinq langues romanes : espagnol, galicien, catalan, français et roumain [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Humanistic and Social Studies, 2016
Since it is well known the difficulties of learners of Romance languages studying nominal phrases without articles, in this paper we will present evidence of a comparative study regarding the use and the absence of definite and indefinite articles in ...
Silvia-Maria Chireac
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The Definite and Indefinite Articles of Spanish (or Castilian) Language in Context

open access: yesVerba Hispanica, 2018
The present paper addresses the contrast between the definite article (el/la/los/las) and the indefinite article (un/a/os/as) from a cognitive approach that not only poses a single meaning for each kind of article, but also highlights the pragmatic (or ...
Sonia Montero Gálvez
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A Dual-Process Activation Model: Processing definiteness and information status

open access: yesGlossa, 2018
The introduction of a new discourse referent with a descriptive noun phrase involves the introduction of a new concept and the assignment of a referent to that concept.
Andreas Brocher, Klaus von Heusinger
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The Syntax of Pseudo-Correlative Constructions with the Pronoun KOTORYJ (‘Which’) in Middle Russian [PDF]

open access: yesSlovene, 2012
This article takes a close look at pseudo-correlatives: multiple sentences in Middle Russian with the pronoun kotoryj ‘which’ in the first clause. It will be argued that they lack correlatives features and that korotyj in such constructions was not a ...
Olga V. Mitrenina
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Contact-induced change or dialectal relic in heritage American-Danish? The indefi-nite article in copula clauses with a person-identifying subject predicate

open access: yesNorsk Lingvistisk Tidsskrift, 2018
This article analyses the use and non-use in American Danish of the indefinite article in the identifying subject predicate construction with a bare noun as the subject predicate: hun er læge – hun er en læge ‘she is a doctor’.
Jan Heegård Petersen
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On use of articles in economic texts written in english

open access: yesEkonomski Vjesnik, 2008
This work is imagined like a simplified guide for the correct use of articles in writing economic texts in English. The articles in English language (indefinite a/an, definite the, ø or zero article as well as the unstressed some) represent a big ...
Ljerka Sedlan Konig
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Quantification in Bodo

open access: yesJournal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society
This article explores the morphological composition of Bodo quantifiers. Based on their morphological features, Bodo quantifiers can be broadly categorized into core and morphologically derived complex quantifiers.
Brahma, Sansuma
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Indefinite DPs in the Gallo-Romance of Piedmont, in some Marginal Northern Italian Varieties and in Romansh

open access: yesQuaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2023
This article investigates indefinite DPs in some Romance varieties spoken in border contexts between linguistic groups. Specifically, we will consider Occitan and Franco-Provençal varieties of western Piedmont, the western Ligurian dialects, the Lombard-
Leonardo Maria Savoia, Benedetta Baldi
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