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Definiteness-indefiniteness category and logical quantification [PDF]

Cognitive Studies | Études cognitives, 2015
Definiteness-indefiniteness category and logical quantification This work has been written within the “Logic and Language” project, realized under a cooperation agreement between the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the
Violetta Koseska-Toszewa
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Indefiniteness in Temoaya Otomi

, 2022
This paper discusses indefiniteness in Temoaya Otomi (ISO 639-3 ott). The examples are the result of elicitation, grammaticality judgment and narratives provided by two Temoaya Otomi-Spanish speakers.
De la Cruz-Sánchez, Gabriela
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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; https://orcid.org/, Stark, Elisabeth   +1 more
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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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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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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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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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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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