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English Transliteration of Arabic Personal Names with the Definite Article {al-} on Facebook [PDF]

, 2022
This study aimed to explore how native speakers of Arabic transliterate first and last names containing the definite article {al-} to English on Facebook; what variations exist in transliterating the definite article itself, which is usually attached to ...
Al-Jarf, Reima
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Grammatical encoding of referentiality in the history of Hungarian [PDF]

, 2013
The paper demonstrates that the Old Hungarian article, although homophonous with the distal demonstrative it developed from, is a fully grammaticalized element encoding definiteness on a syntactic level.
Egedi, Barbara, Barbara Egedi
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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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The (mis-)use of the English definite article in relation to the ‘of-phrase’ construction by speakers of Jordanian-Arabic and Cypriot-Greek

Journal 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 definite article in recent grammatical theory [PDF]

, 1976
The definite article is more difficult to define than the native speaker of English might realize. I propose to survey various treatments of the definite article, noting their strengths and weaknesses, in an attempt to reach an understanding of the ...
Schuller, Rhonda
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The Origins and Development of the Definite Article in Egyptian-Coptic

Studies 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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Greece, the Netherlands and (the) Ukraine: A Corpus-Based Study of Definite Article Use with Country Names

Names, 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

Glossa, 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

Glossa, 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

Romanica 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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