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The Expression of Indefiniteness in English and Arabic: A Contrastive Study

open access: yes, 2019
Indefiniteness is a semantic feature expressed by grammatical devices to be used linguistically depending on pragmatic factors. So, the present study deals with indefiniteness syntactically, semantically and pragmatically.
Inam Ismael Taher
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CHARITIES - INDEFINITENESS - CONSTRUCTION OF STATUTE VALIDATING INDEFINITE TRUSTS FOR CHARITY [PDF]

open access: yes, 1939
The testator\u27s will contained a bequest of $10,000 to executors to be held in trust by them and paid out to such corporations or associations of individuals as will in their judgment best promote the cause of preventing cruelty to animals in the ...
Ulman, John M.
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Detecting macroscopic indefiniteness of cat states in bosonic interferometers

open access: yes, 2019
The paradigm of Schr\"{o}dinger's cat illustrates how quantum states preclude the assignment of definite properties to a macroscopic object (realism).
Tsai, S-W   +3 more
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Using AI to Analyze Patent Claim Indefiniteness

open access: yes, 2020
We describe how to use artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to partially automate a type of legal analysis, determining whether a patent claim satisfies the definiteness requirement.
Ashley, Kevin, Alderucci, Dean
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Information structure and the status of np in russian [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
In his 1995 monograph, Apresyan suggests that it would be extremely interesting to investigate the means of expressing the definiteness/indefiniteness opposition in languages that do not have articles.
Brun, Dina
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On the nature of object omission: indefiniteness as indeterminacy

open access: yes, 2017
This squib attempts to bring more precision to the understanding of object omission in English by investigating the referential behavior of omitted objects. Allerton (1975) and Fillmore (1986) understand omitted objects as being indefinite, by which they
JINSEUNG EU
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Definiteness and Indefiniteness of Nouns in English and Albanian: A Contrastive Analysis

open access: yes, 2018
Different languages have different ways of indicating the definiteness and indefiniteness of nouns. In English, as in most languages, the category of definiteness and indefiniteness is not a grammatical category of nouns. It is rather a semantic category
Agnesa Çanta
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Translation and Linguodidactic Problems of The Category of Definiteness and Indefiniteness

open access: yes, 2022
This article shows significant features and effective ways of translation of the expressive means of the category of definiteness and indefiniteness in the materials of English and Uzbek languages.
Valiyeva Navro’zaxon   +1 more
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”Strong” Indefiniteness and Topicality

open access: yes, 2013
The paper addresses the relation between “strong” or presuppositional readings of indefinite noun phrases and the notion of topicality in its sentential and discourse-level formulations.
Özge, Umut
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How to translate the non-existent. Definiteness/indefiniteness of binomial syntagms [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
The article deals with the problem of criteria to be followed in the translation of Slavic noun phrases that have no overt markers of definiteness/indefiniteness into a language with articles.
Karolak, Stanisław
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