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The Forms of the Indefinite Article in Eastern Armenian
Armeniaca, 2022 This paper studies the formal distinction of the indefinite article from the quantifier ‘one’ in Early and pre-Modern Armenian texts by three 18‑19th century authors as well as in a colloquial Modern Eastern Armenian dialogue.
Sargsyan, Hasmik
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Variation in the Occurrence and Interpretation of Articles in Malagasy: A Comparison with Italian
Languages, 2022 In languages that have a definite article but no indefinite article, the definite article typically maps to definites, and the bare noun maps to indefinites.
Ileana Paul +2 more
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The Acquisition of Grammatical Marking of Indefiniteness with the Indefinite Article a in L2 English
Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2007 Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 7 No. 1 (2007)
Ekiert, Monika
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The article a(n) in English quantifying expressions: A default marker of cardinality
Glossa, 2020 Certain English quantificational expressions feature what appears to be an indefinite article, e.g. a bunch, a few, a hundred. These can be divided into three types of quantifying expressions: pseudopartitives (a lot, a bunch, a ton), article-requiring ...
Heidi Klockmann
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Indefiniteness in Francoprovençal. A Real Bare de? New Hints from the Consonantal Liaison
Géolinguistique, 2022 In Romance languages the indefinite articles are generally the result of prepositions + determiners (P + D) contraction, de + definite Article, combined with nominals within indefinite Determiners Phrases (DPs).
Michela Russo
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A Plural Indefinite Article in Heritage Greek: The Role of Register
Languages, 2022 This paper investigates the use of kati “some” by Greek Heritage Speakers (HSs) in comparison to monolinguals. While all Greek determiners are marked for gender, case, and number, and agree with their nominal complement, kati is an exception, as it lacks
Artemis Alexiadou +2 more
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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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L2/L3 acquisition of the English indefinite article
, 2023 This study investigated the second/third language (L2/L3) acquisition of the English indefinite article by speakers of Jordanian-Arabic (JA) and Cypriot-Greek (CG).
Al-Hawi, Asma, Karpava, Sviatlana
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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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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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