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Romanian definite article revisited

open access: yesLinguistica, 1999
I shall attempt to resume a long, almost endless discussion: the origin of the Romanian definite article. Any grammar of Romanian or any comparative grammar the Romance languages (e. g.
Sorin Paliga
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The BMJ, the definite article [PDF]

open access: yesBMJ, 2014
A new name, logo, website design, and homepage address (thebmj.com) The journal will be 175 years old next year. During that time it has had four names: the Provincial Medical and Surgical Journal (1840-52), the Association Medical Journal (1853-56), the British Medical Journal (1857-1988), and BMJ (1988-2014).
David, Payne   +3 more
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The Origins and Development of the Definite Article in Egyptian-Coptic

open access: yesStudies in Ancient Art and Civilization, 2014
The first appearance of the emphatic demonstratives pA/tA/nA in northern Egyptian letters of the 6th Dynasty and their absence from southern Egyptian sources indicates the growing difference between the language variants spoken in these broadly defined ...
Maxim Kupreyev
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The (mis-)use of the English definite article in relation to the ‘of-phrase’ construction by speakers of Jordanian-Arabic and Cypriot-Greek

open access: yesJournal of the European Second Language Association, 2021
A plethora of second-language (L2) acquisition studies have tested the acquisition of English determiners in relation to simple noun phrases (NPs) of the generic versus non-generic type (e.g., Ionin., et al., 2008; Momenzadea & Youhanaeeb, 2014) rather ...
Asma Al-hawi, Sviatlana Karpava
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The origin of the cliticness of the west Germanic definite article: the case of Beowulf

open access: yesLinguistica, 1984
The present paper is mainly concerned with the definite ar­ ticle of Beowulf. The literature about the West Germanic definite article has always allotted a prime place among the old Germanic texts to this poem: it is undisputably archaic (Kuhn 1933: 105,
Janez Orešnik
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Greece, the Netherlands and (the) Ukraine: A Corpus-Based Study of Definite Article Use with Country Names

open access: yesNames, 2020
This study investigates the grammatical behavior of English country names based on corpus linguistic evidence. An overview of the basic patterns of definite article use with country names as commonly described in English reference grammars and of the ...
Heiko Motschenbacher
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Familiar vs. unique in a diachronic perspective. Case study of the rise of the definite article in North Germanic

open access: yesGlossa, 2021
The aim of the present study is to follow the development of the suffixed definite article in North Germanic, in particular taking into account the unique reference expressed by the nascent article.
Alicja Piotrowska, Dominika Skrzypek
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The definite article in Romance expletives and long weak definites

open access: yesGlossa, 2017
This paper focuses on some issues involving expletive articles and long weak definites in Romance (mainly Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese and Catalan), in comparison to DPs that elicit a strong reading.
M.Teresa Espinal, Sonia Cyrino
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Aglutinarea articolului hotărât în carpatismele poloneze de origine română

open access: yesRomanica Cracoviensia, 2023
Lexicalization of Definite Article in Polish Carpathian Vocabulary of Romanian Origin The conditions under which the borrowing and diffusion of Carpathian vocabulary of Romanian origin in the ...
Anna Oczko
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Definite Article Use in the Interlanguage of Spanish Speakers: A Multidimensional Problem

open access: yesMiscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 2012
This paper aims to study the relationship between the different forms of definite article use in Spanish and English and its inherent influence on the acquisitional process of Spanish learners of English. A study was carried out with three groups of ten
Laura Torrado Mariñas
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