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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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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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Peut-on différencier l’opération de parcours ?

Corela, 2006
The operation named “scanning” (“parcours”) within the framework of the Théorie des Opérations Enonciatives is disseminated among other operations and does not seem to correspond to one particular linguistic marker or even to one homogeneous set of ...
Gérard Mélis
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WAYS OF EXPRESSING THE CATEGORY “DEFINITENESS – INDEFINITENESS” IN RUSSIAN, TATAR AND GERMAN LANGUAGES (COMPARATIVE ASPECT)

Многоязычие в образовательном пространстве, 2021
The purpose of this study is to conduct a comparative typological analysis of the means of expressing the category “Definiteness / Indefiniteness” in German, Tatar and Russian languages and, building on this analysis, to develop a system of exercises ...
A. A. Sibgatullina
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Indefinites in Comparatives [PDF]

Semantics and Linguistic Theory, 2011
The goal of this paper is to explain the meaning and distribution of indefinites in comparatives, focusing on the case of English 'some' and 'any' and German 'irgend'-indefinites. We combine three competing theories of comparatives with an alternative semantics of 'some' and 'any', and a novel account of stressed 'irgend'-indefinites.
Aloni, M., Roelofsen, F.
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Any and its ‘free choice’

Kalbotyra
Since Ladusaw (1979) the term ‘free choice indefinite’ is the generally accepted term for the meaning of any in primarily modal and generic sentences, such as Any owl hunts mice, but not for what is generally called the ‘polarity-sensitive’ or ‘negative
Johan van der Auwera
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Indefinite intertwining operators [PDF]

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1984
For a wide class of linear connected semisimple Lie groups, one obtains formulas limiting the Langlands parameters of irreducible unitary representations obtained from maximal parabolic subgroups. The formulas relate unitarity to the number of roots satisfying certain conditions. Some evidence is presented that the formulas are sharp.
Baldoni-Silva, M. W., Knapp, A. W.
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Quantum communication through devices with indefinite input-output direction

New Journal of Physics, 2023
Certain quantum devices, such as half-wave plates and quarter-wave plates in quantum optics, are bidirectional, meaning that the roles of their input and output ports can be exchanged.
Zixuan Liu, Ming Yang, Giulio Chiribella
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Developments in Quantum Probability and the Copenhagen Approach

Entropy, 2018
In the Copenhagen approach to quantum mechanics as characterized by Heisenberg, probabilities relate to the statistics of measurement outcomes on ensembles of systems and to individual measurement events via the actualization of quantum potentiality ...
Gregg Jaeger
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Nieokreśloność a kwantyfikacja: współdziałanie kategorii semantycznych

LingVaria, 2017
Indefiniteness and Quantification: Cooperation of Semantic Categories The author considers the relationship between the category of quantification and the category of definiteness/ indefiniteness.
Aleksander Kiklewicz
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