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From Adjectives to Quantifiers. Evidence from Old and Modern Catalan
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2011 The history of indefinite quantifiers in Romance languages is basically the history of the development of new distributional patterns in the case of some Latin adjectives (Company 1991, 1997; Batllori 1998).
Bruno Camus Bergareche +1 more
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Vietnamese and the NP/DP parameter [PDF]
, 2015 This paper investigates the place of Vietnamese in the NP/DP typology as formulated by Bošković (2005, 2008, 2009, 2010). We show that Bošković’s NP/DP parameter breaks down into at least three separate parameters.
Lander, Eric, Phan Nguyen, Trang
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Determinants of Indefinite Contracts in Europe: The Role of Unemployment
Comparative Sociology, 2016 Using individual-level data from the 2010 wave of the European Working Conditions Survey (ewcs), and country-level data on unemployment, employment protection legislation and union density for 21 European countries, this paper provides a comprehensive multi-level analysis of the determinants of indefinite employment contracts.
Baccaro, L. +3 more
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Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 2015 The present article discusses the semantic and discourse-pragmatic properties of different competing types of indefinite noun phrases in Old High German, the earliest attested period of German. In particular, it investigates the behavior of indefinites
Petrova Svetlana
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Telicity and indefinite plural determiners in Spanish spoken in Spain
, 2020 La telicidad es una noción aspectual semántica que se comprende como el punto final inherente de una situación realizado lingüísticamente. Según Moure (1990), la presencia de determinantes como “el/un” promueve una lectura télica de la sentencia, mientras que la ausencia de determinantes promueve una lectura atélica. Sin embargo, no se sabe qué lectura
da Silva Gomes, Jean Carlos +1 more
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Central Determiner in Abstracts Journal [PDF]
, 2019 Central determiner is as the main component in constructing noun phrase element as subject, objects, and complement in writing compositions. Meanwhile, determiner affects the meaning of noun.
Fitriani, A. (Aries) +1 more
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Nominal structure in a language without articles: The case of Estonian
Glossa, 2018 It is standardly assumed that nominals in the languages of the world are syntactically complex in the typical case, being made up of not just NP, but one or more functional projections, e.g., DP (Abney 1987). Recently, this assumption has been questioned,
Mark Norris
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Adjective Syntax and (the absence of) noun raising in the DP [PDF]
, 2008 The paper is structured as follows. Section 2.1 introduces the basic classes of adjectives that constitute the factual core of the paper. Section 2.2 summarizes in greater detail the X° and the XP movement approaches to word order variation within the DP.
Alexiadou, Artemis
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Adjectival modification and multiple determiners [PDF]
, 2008 The present paper deals with the distribution of the definite determiner and certain related aspects of adjectival modification in Greek DPs. As (1) shows, determiners in Greek DPs precede adjectives and adjectives precede nouns.
Alexiadou, Artemis, Wilder, Chris
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English article usage as a window on the meanings of same, identical and similar [PDF]
, 2016 We propose an explanation for a traditional puzzle in English linguistics involving the use of articles with the nominal modifiers same, identical and similar.
Birner +15 more
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