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Emergence of the indefinite article
2010This study explores the grammaticalization of a frequently used numeral classifier yige into a marker of indefiniteness in spoken Taiwan Mandarin. Naturally-occurring data show that yige is frequently used to introduce a newly-mentioned but unfamiliar referent into the discourse and its distribution goes beyond the typical boundary of a numeral ...
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Indefinite articles — Benson hedges
Education + Training, 1980There are few professional men, lawyers or not, who do not know of the Benson Report with its widespread inquiry into most aspects of the legal profession. Less well known, beyond any doubt, is the outcome of the approach which the Benson Commission made to the Law Society for the views of its Council on the system of training under articles.
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Indefinite Articles in the Romance Languages
2022A common feature of Romance languages is the existence of indefinite articles. Prototypically, indefinite articles serve to introduce new referents into discourse, which can later be taken up by means of a definite. In Romance languages, the diachronic source of indefinite articles is the unitary cardinal ‘one’ and in most cases the singular indefinite
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Articles, definite and indefinite
2008In the Indo-European languages where a definite article exists, it is historically derived from a demonstrative pronoun. The hypothesis of this paper is that the origin of the definite article is the creation of noun phrase structure by the subordination of a noun to a demonstrative pronoun.
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The indefinite in the Descartes-More correspondence
British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 2021Tad M Schmaltz
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