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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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Definite and indefinite article accuracy in learner English: A multifactorial analysis
, 2023 We present a learner corpus-based study of English article use (“a”/“the”/Ø) by L2 learners with four typologically distinct first languages (L1s): German and Brazilian Portuguese (both have articles), Chinese and Russian (no articles).
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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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Definite-indefinite article choice development in Dutch child language [PDF]
, 2017 Many acquisition studies indicate that across languages, children overgenerate definite articles in indefinite contexts. However, proportions and ages at which children make this error vary, and so do theoretical accounts.
Eliazer, J. +6 more
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The Grammaticalization of Numeral ‘One’ in Slavic: From Quantification to (Non-) Referentiality
Catalan Journal of LinguisticsThe 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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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 +1 more
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Article-based Determination of Toponymic and Anthroponymic Units in German
Научный диалогThe paper is devoted to the consideration of the category of Article in the German Language as a system means of individualization and categorising. The research thrives to reveal cognitively determined mechanisms governing classification of realia.
G. V. Samorodin
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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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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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