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Indefiniteness Effect on Meaning Regulation in the Young Female Students Trained in Psychology [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2021 Life-purpose orientations and self-reflection are important factors in person-al meaning regulation. Anyone living in the transitive society of today does not exercise full control over his or her life activity due to various factors of indefiniteness ...
Abakumova Irina +3 more
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Definiteness Systems and Dialect Classification
Languages, 2021 In this article I explore how typological approaches can be used to construct novel classification schemes for Arabic dialects, taking the example of definiteness as a case study. Definiteness in Arabic has traditionally been envisioned as an essentially
Mike Turner
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Variation in the Occurrence and Interpretation of Articles in Malagasy: A Comparison with Italian
Languages, 2022 In languages that have a definite article but no indefinite article, the definite article typically maps to definites, and the bare noun maps to indefinites.
Ileana Paul +2 more
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Definiteness and Indefiniteness. A Comparative Perspective on Finnish and Italian
Lea, 2022 The article focuses on one of the crucial aspects that differentiates Italian and Finnish: the way to express definiteness and indefiniteness.
Lena Dal Pozzo
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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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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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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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KalbotyraSince 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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