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Verbum, 2019 All Romance languages have developed the definite and the indefinite article via the Vulgar Latin (Classical Latin did not use articles), the language of the Roman colonists. According to Joseph H.
Ovidiu Ivancu
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In the periphery of an indefinite pronoun. Forms and functions of conceptual agreement with jemand
Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 2023 In German, the social gender of the human referent matches the grammatical gender of the noun and pronoun in many cases. Nevertheless, those categories can also differ from each other.
Ellsäßer Sophie
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Frontiers in Communication, 2023 This paper focuses on the impact of social cognition on thes processing of linguistic information. More specifically, it brings some insights to Relevance theory's construal of MeaningNN, which seeks to account for non-propositional meanings.
Magali A. Mari, Misha-Laura Müller
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The Implicational Semantic Map for Veps Indefinite Pronouns; pp. 281-292 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2010 This article discusses the Veps indefinite pronouns and corresponding pro-forms in the spirit of linguistic typology. It aims at an overview of the semantics of the Veps indefinite pronouns in the light of the semantic map methodology.
Heini Hienonen
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Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 2015 The present article discusses the semantic and discourse-pragmatic properties of different competing types of indefinite noun phrases in Old High German, the earliest attested period of German. In particular, it investigates the behavior of indefinites
Petrova Svetlana
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La quantification universelle en trio: tous les, chaque et tout [PDF]
Studii de Lingvistica, 2011 This article revisits the well-known question of the quantification made by chaque, tout and tous les, that express totality or universal quantification, by focusing on a preliminary question: should we group the three quantifiers or not? Most frequently
Georges Kleiber
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Partitive Articles and Indefinites, Micro and Macrovariation [PDF]
Studia Linguistica, 2021 AbstractThis introductory paper provides an overview of the main phenomena investigated in this Special Issue, such as the relation between the encoding of indefinites and the presence of genitive and definite markers, the relation between partitivity and indefiniteness and the distribution of these phenomena in minority, or “micro”, varieties – such ...
Francesco Pinzin, Cecilia Poletto
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Count-mass Distinction in the Acquisition of English Articles by Persian Learners of English [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, 2012 Articles in general and definite articles in particular can create problems even long after all other aspects of English have been mastered. The present article investigated the learnability problems related to the acquisition of count-mass distinction ...
Mohammad Javad Rezai
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The evolution of the (in)definite future markers POU and VA in 20th century Mauritian Creole
Études Créoles, 2022 Following a series of articles about the status of Mauritian’s future markers in the 1993 edition of Etudes Créoles (Baker 1993; Hazaël-Massieux 1993; Touchard & Véronique 1993) there has been little debate about the division of labour between POU and VA
Hannah Davidson
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The syntax and semantics of approximate indefinites in Spanish [PDF]
DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada, 2020 In Spanish, combining an indefinite plural article and a cardinal number leads to an approximative interpretation similar to that provided by approximators like ‘approximately’.
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