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Embodiment and Gestural Simulation of the Definite Article
SAGE OpenIn this study, we examined mental simulation and gestural embodiment of the definite article ( the ) by analyzing gestures produced by presenters talking about a variety of subjects.
Omid Khatin-Zadeh +3 more
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Task Motivation and Transfer of Learning across Tasks: The Case of Learning the English Definite Article [PDF]
Issues in Language Teaching, 2021 Task motivation has recently gained prominence in second language (L2) research. However, its potential effects on the transfer of learning across tasks have not been investigated.
Saeed Safdari
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On the Use of Articles in English and in Hungarian
Acta Academiae Beregsasiensis, Philologica, 2023 The English article system presents many problems for non-native speakers of English, thus to Hungarian learners of English as well, and due to the influence of the mother tongue they commit many errors in using them.
Éva Kovács
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Grammaticalization of the Definite Article in Armenian
Armeniaca, 2022 The Classical Armenian definite article system is unusual for Indo-European, but paralleled in prehistoric common Kartvelian. It may represent an intermediate stage in grammaticalization between demonstratives and definite articles.
Hodgson, Katherine
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L'articolo determinativo ed indeterminativo in italiano e in arabo Studio contrastivo [PDF]
مجلة کلية الاداب جامعة حلوان, 2023 This research deals with the definite and indefinite articles in the Italian language and the Arabic language through a contrastive study. The aim of the research is to study the types of definite and indefinite articles in detail in the two languages ...
أمل كمال عبد الحافظ حنفي
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ENGLISH L2 DEFINITE ARTICLE INSTRUCTION AT THE SERBIAN L1 TERTIARY LEVEL
Facta Universitatis. Series, Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education, 2020 The study has two main goals: to assess in part the effects of current definite article instruction at the tertiary level in the Serbian L1/English L2 environment, and to analyze whether the use of the definite article in English could be represented by ...
Marta Veličković
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Are there three variants of the definite article in Macedonian? [PDF]
Južnoslovenski Filolog, 2006 According to the Macedonian grammatical tradition there are three variants of the definite article in Standard Macedonian as well as in the majority of Macedonian dialects. The author argues that such an interpretation has a purely formal motivation.
Topolinjska Zuzana
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«¡La de + N + que…!» The Feminine Definite Article in Spanish Exclamative Clauses
Languages, 2023 The present study explores the exclamative use of the feminine definite article la in structures such as ‘¡La de chicos que besé en la fiesta!’ (How many guys I kissed at the party!).
Juan José Arias
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The definite article in Votic: the process of grammaticalisation
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2015 The paper is devoted to the grammaticalisation of the deictic pronoun se into a definite article in Votic. The author traces this process diachronically demonstrating the results of her studies with the examples of a folktale written down by August ...
Tatiana Agranat
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The Deity in the Definite Article: laššāwʼ and related terms for Baʻal in Jeremiah
Old Testament Essays, 2020 The general consensus is that the abstract noun šāwʼ (שׁוא) in the HB/OT, with the basic meaning of worthlessness, inefficacy, deceit, emptiness, falsehood, lie, could refer either to these qualities in general (typically translated in the English as “in
C Wynand Retief
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