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Indefinite Determiners and the Pragmatics of Referential Anchoring [PDF]
International Review of Pragmatics, 2011 In this paper we propose a unified framework for the representation of different types of indefinite pronouns and determiners in terms of referential anchoring. Referential anchoring is a pragmatic operation that establishes a functional dependency between the referent of an indefinite DP and some other discourse item.
Edgar Onea, Ljudmila Geist
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Determiners and quantifiers in Spanish: types, tests and theories
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2018 This article provides an overview about the main facts and analytical options in the domain of determiners and quantifiers in Spanish. It covers the main classification of determiners and their basic syntactic and semantic properties (§1), the ...
Antonio Fábregas
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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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Application of Determiners in Phraseological Units Containing Names of Human Body Parts
Communications, 2010 The article deals with formal expressive means of the category of determination which are applied in phraseological units of the English language containing names of human body parts (nouns ear, eye, face, foot, hand, head, heart are the focus of our ...
Marta Lackova
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Isogloss, 2023 In this paper, we focus on partitive articles (PAs), i.e., determiners which, generally, have an indefinite interpretation, and on one of their potential correlates, i.e., invariable de, in Francoprovençal, a non-standardized, highly endangered Gallo ...
Tabea Ihsane +2 more
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When Language Transfer is Negative
Vestnik za Tuje Jezike, 2021 This paper analyses morpho-syntactic interference errors committed by learners of French as a foreign language in four Tanzanian universities: UDSM, UDOM, DUCE and Makumira.
Jonace Manyasa
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, 1997 The paper considers participles such as "unknown", "identified" and "unspecified", which in sentences such as "Solange is staying in an unknown hotel" have readings equivalent to an indirect question "Solange is staying in a hotel, and it is not known ...
Abusch, Dorit, Rooth, Mats
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The Syntax of Polish jeden ‘One’ as an Indefinite Determiner
Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale, 2022 The current literature on Polish jeden ‘one’ focuses on its numeral status, though there is evidence that it is grammaticalizing into an indefinite determiner. This article provides a syntactic analysis of jeden in its different functions, trying to account for its grammaticalization process. Quantificational/adjectival jeden is hosted in the specifier
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The Development of the Articles in Castilian: A Functional Approach
Languages, 2019 The development of the definite and indefinite articles in Castilian may be regarded as an instance of capitalization or adfunctionalization, following partial exaptation of the Latin demonstrative ille, which involves progressive widening without ...
Christopher J. Pountain
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Indefiniteness and Specificity in Old Italian Texts [PDF]
, 2001 Object of this study is the marking of nominal indefiniteness in Old Italian, more precisely Old Tuscan texts, in three collections of ...
Stark, Elisabeth
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