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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"definite article"”.
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Frame anaphora: The definite article in discourse
The definite article is a problematic feature of language for many nonnative speakers of English. This study investigates one use of the definite article in the written discourse of native and nonnative speakers. This use, which I term frame anaphora, is illustrated in the following example: 'The …
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"Marie Manje La Pom Nan." Examining the Cognitive Process of Restructuring and Advantage Selection in the Definite Article System in Haitian Creole Among U.S. Born Heritage Speakers of Haitian Creole
… compared the morphophonological patterns of the definite article system at the production and perception level between two groups of early learners of Haitian Creole (i.e. native speakers vs. United States (US) born heritage speakers).<br /><br />The study examined the extent to which heritage …
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L’acquisition des Catégories Fonctionnelles : Étude comparative du développement du DP français chez des enfants et des apprenants adultes
… analysis deals with the syntactic status of the definite article, a clitic head (X0). Data from elision and incorporation are used for the analysis. Following our main hypotheses, the syntactic “lightness” of the clitic definite article predicts different acquisition patterns in 2L1 and L2. This …
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A sociolinguistic study of the Tihami Qahtani dialect in Asir, Southern Arabia
… linguistic variable is morpho-phonological, definite article m-. The Tihāmi Qaḥṭāni dialect preserves ancient realisations of these features. This is a dialect that traditionally has a lateral realisation of ḍād, and m- definite article, both of which are ancient Semitic features. A total of …
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Posuny ve vyjadřování kategorie určenosti v současné spisovné a nespisovné češtině
While the category of in/definiteness in Czech and other Slavonic languages (except Bulgarian and Macedonian, cf. Corbett - Comrie, 2002) is not expressed by articles, the present paper is concerned with the observation that in contemporary spoken nonstandard Czech a) the demonstrative pronoun ten …
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Amount Superlatives and Measure Phrases
… including superlative inflection in which case a definite article may introduce the measure phrase. The question of how superlative morphology is interpreted inside a measure phrase opens the door to a new analysis of measure nouns and measure pseudopartitive constructions. This approach is then …
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A critical and comparative study of the dialectal speech of the Ghawarna community in the Jordan Valley in Jordan
… possesses features in the realisation of the definite article /-al/, which differ from the rest of the neighbouring dialects it has otherwise a close relationship mainly with the country dialects on both the Western and Eastern side of the river Jordan, but less so with Palestinian bedouin …
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Semantic and pragmatic language development in typical acquisition, autism spectrum disorders, and Williams syndrome with reference to developmental neurogenetics of the latter
… the reasons for children's overuse of definite article 'the', to refer to one of several objects in a context set, as opposed to the unique established referent. Competing theories argue the deficit is either in children's semantic computational knowledge (of uniqueness/maximality), or …
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Vernacular vocabulary in the Durham Account Rolls (1278-1538): a philological approach
… patterns, including the occurrence of the French definite article, non-existent in Latin, the use of lexical items that could be interpreted as simultaneously belonging to multiple languages and, in relation to this, abbreviations or suspension marks in lieu of full inflectional Latin suffixes. …
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Regional Dialect Levelling and Language Standards: Changes in the Hønefoss Dialect
… variables stress in loanwords and plural definite article suffixes. The investigation considers linguistic ideals that speakers link to codification of language (correctness), education or the capital city and attest that language that can be linked to all these ideals is becoming more …
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Case Endings in Spoken Standard Arabic
… endings are very rarely used in words with the definite article al-, in adjectival attributes, and on words at the end of utterances. Case marking is strongly favored on words where it would be orthographically represented in writing and on words with an enclitic pronoun. It was also found that …
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Linguistic variation in Egyptian Judaeo-Arabic folk tales and letters from the Ottoman period
… motivations behind the separation of the definite article, a key feature of late written Judaeo-Arabic; and (iii) an investigation into the plene spelling of short vowels and the information contained therein. The second section is devoted to a detailed study of diachronic developments and …
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Some complexities in English article use and acquisition
<p>Along with preposition use, native-like article use is one of the greatest difficulties for learners of English, particularly for those learners whose first languages do not have articles. And unlike many other areas involved in the mastery of the language, articles continue to present a …
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The Syntax of the Dialect of Bari
… a peculiar Barese structure which combines the definite article with the distal demonstrative pronoun is analysed, highlighting how it specifically marks discourse-old referents. Chapter 4 describes the mechanisms of auxiliary selection and past participle agreement operative in Barese. In …
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Referring expressions in Chinese and English discourse
… identifiable that {it} this {that N} {the N} {indefinite this N} {a N} this N. The Givenness Hierarchy correlates the form of referring expressions with their cognitive statuses, with each status being necessary and sufficient for the appropriate use of a different form or set of forms. The …
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Variación Sintáctico-Semántica Del Artículo Definido en Sintagmas Nominales en El Español De Hispanohablantes De Herencia
… to preverbal nouns that are modified only by a definite article. For these two languages, nouns differ in their syntactic distribution and in their interpretation. While bare nouns in subject position are grammatical in English, this structure is usually not considered grammatical in Spanish …