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A Pedagogical Perspective on the Definite and the Indefinite Article in the Romanian Language. Challenges for Foreign Learners

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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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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Social cognition and Relevance: How stereotypes impact the processing of definite and indefinite descriptions

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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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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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 Grammaticalization of Numeral ‘One’ in Slavic: From Quantification to (Non-) Referentiality

Catalan Journal of Linguistics
The article presents a corpus-based investigation of the distribution and interpretation of ‘one’ + N combination in six Slavic languages (Russian, Ukrainian, Czech, Serbian, Macedonian, and Bulgarian).
Daria Seres
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A Relative Clause Whose Antecedent Is Determined by the Indefinite Article: Observations on determination, qualification and stabilization of occurrences

Angles, 2017
The purpose of this paper is to observe the properties of undetached relative clauses qualifying nouns determined with the indefinite article A in the framework of the theory of enunciative operations.
Stéphane Gresset, Catherine Mazodier
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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’.
Fernando Martín Carranza, Carlos Muñoz Pérez   +1 more
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Medical writing for non-native English speakers: Help for usage of articles [PDF]

Scripta Medica, 2019
Many non-native English speakers, especially those whose mother language has no articles (like Slavic languages) make mistakes when they speak or write English. This may sound rather rough to English-speaking listeners or readers.
Škrbić Ranko, Igić Rajko
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