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Indefinite determiners in two northern Italian dialects
Isogloss, 2022 Italian and Italian dialects express indefiniteness in different ways, among which with a null determiner (ZERO) like all other Romance languages, but also with the definite article (ART) unlike what is found in Romance.
Gianluca E. Lebani, Giuliana Giusti
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Les déterminants définis et indéfinis dans la langue malgache : étude comparative avec le français
Altralang Journal: This article examines the origin and various influences of the Malagasy language, as well as the specificity of its definite and indefinite determiners in comparison with French. The Malagasy language, rich in a varied linguistic heritage, incorporates
Aina Fanantenana Bertholin Gérard Jocelyn HERIMANANA
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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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WEAK AND STRONG ADJECTIVES IN OLD NORSE: AN EXAMINATION OF KONUNGS SKUGGSJÁ [PDF]
Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia, 2023 All early Germanic languages distinguish between a weak and a strong adjectival declension. This contrast is traditionally described in terms of definiteness, the strong declension expressing indefinite reference and the weak one definite reference. Such
Terje WAGENER
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Optionality in the Expression of Indefiniteness: A Pilot Study on Piacentine
Languages, 2022 Optionality is an issue within the minimalist theory of language, in which the principle of the “last resort” does not admit competing options to express the same meaning.
Luca Molinari
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Atlantis, 2021 This study examines the correct and incorrect use of local cohesive ties and local cohesion errors in the written narratives of eleven- to twelve-year-old Spanish learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) at different proficiency levels.
Pedro Antonio Férez Mora +2 more
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Indefinite determiners in informal Italian: A preliminary analysis [PDF]
Linguistics, 2020 Abstract This paper presents the results of a pilot study on the distribution of indefinite determiners in contexts with narrow scope interpretation in current informal Italian. It individuates the available forms and presents their diatopic distribution. The research is based on data collected through an online questionnaire designed to
Anna Cardinaletti, Giuliana Giusti
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On Randomized Trace Estimates for Indefinite Matrices with an Application to Determinants [PDF]
Foundations of Computational Mathematics, 2021 AbstractRandomized trace estimation is a popular and well-studied technique that approximates the trace of a large-scale matrixBby computing the average of$$x^T Bx$$xTBxfor many samples of a random vectorX. Often,Bis symmetric positive definite (SPD) but a number of applications give rise to indefiniteB.
Cortinovis A, Kressner D
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CogniTextes, 2022 From a cognitive‑semantic perspective, two important conceptual schemas underlie determiner use and the count/mass distinction in languages such as English and French, namely bounding and definiteness.
Evelyn Wiesinger
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Intraclade Contact from an I-Language Perspective. The Noun Phrase in the Ligurian/Occitan amphizone
Languages, 2021 This article aims to compare some traits that characterise the syntax of the noun phrase in the Occitan/Ligurian amphizone (i.e., contact area) that lies at the border between southern France and northwestern Italy.
Diego Pescarini
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