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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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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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Presentational/Existential Structures in Spoken versus Written German: Es Gibt and SEIN [PDF]

, 2013
This article presents a synchronic, corpus-based examination of spoken German with regard to the distribution and function of presentational/ existential es gibt NP and a range of SEIN NP structures such as da SEIN , locative SEIN , es SEIN , and zero ...
Weinert, Regina
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Constrained Query Answering [PDF]

, 1994
Traditional answering methods evaluate queries only against positive and definite knowledge expressed by means of facts and deduction rules. They do not make use of negative, disjunctive or existential information.
Bry, François, Demolombe, R.
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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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The Betti numbers of the moduli space of stable sheaves of rank 3 on P2 [PDF]

, 2011
This article computes the generating functions of the Betti numbers of the moduli space of stable sheaves of rank 3 on the projective plane P2 and its blow-up. Wall-crossing is used to obtain the Betti numbers on the blow-up.
Manschot, Jan
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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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Framing post-conflict societies: an analysis of the international pathologisation of Cambodia and the post-Yugoslav states [PDF]

, 2005
The article examines the pathologisation of post-conflict societies through a comparison of the framing of the Cambodian and post-Yugoslav states. The notion of failed states fixes culpability for war on societies in question, rendering the domestic ...
Hughes, Caroline, Pupavac, Vanessa
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Synchronic variation and diachronic change in the expression of indefinite reference: evidence from historical German

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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