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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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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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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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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 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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Definite Article Use in the Interlanguage of Spanish Speakers: A Multidimensional Problem

Miscelánea: 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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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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English Transliteration of Arabic Personal Names with the Definite Article {al-} on Facebook

, 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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The Definite Article in Mel [PDF]

, 2016
As a function word, the definite article is subject to some attrition in the course of language change, usually originating in a a form with fuller phonetic substance such as a demonstrative, e.g., Greenberg 1978.
Childs, George Tucker
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