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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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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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Textual Origins of the Indefinite Article in Swedish [PDF]

fsp, 2013
ABSTRACT The present paper studies the earliest stages of the grammaticalization of indefinite article in Old Swedish. The study is based on a corpus of Old Swedish texts and uses the model of grammaticalization as proposed by Heine 1997.
Skrzypek, Dominika
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Plural indefinite articles: the case of unos and des

Semantics and Linguistic Theory, 2015
<p class="p1">Plurality typically comes in two flavors: an inclusive and an exclusive one. We exploit these different plurality ‘flavors’ to argue that there are two types of plural indefinite articles, each with their own characteristics with respect to ‘blocking’ and aspect.
Bert Le Bruyn, Julia Pozas-Loyo
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The use of the indefinite article with proper nouns in the French language

Тонкие химические технологии, 2011
The article deals with the use of indefinite article with proper nouns. The role of proper nouns in a sentence is investigated. Three types of interpretation of proper nouns are given.
E. L. Lukomskaya
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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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L'articolo determinativo ed indeterminativo in italiano e in arabo Studio contrastivo [PDF]

مجلة کلية الاداب جامعة حلوان, 2023
 This research deals with the definite and indefinite articles in the Italian language and the Arabic language through a contrastive study. The aim of the research is to study the types of definite and indefinite articles in detail in the two languages ...
أمل كمال عبد الحافظ حنفي
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