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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"definiteness"”.
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Definiteness and Quantification: Evidence from Shan
… of relative clauses, I develop an account of definiteness and quantification that (i) connects the mass/count distinction to atomicity—providing a unified approach to count and measure quantification, (ii) argues that classifier morphology is required by cumulative nouns, (iii) proposes a …
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Syntactic chains and the definiteness effect
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1982.
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A Condition for Positive Definiteness on Groups
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Adjectival definiteness marking: Lithuanian in a typological context /
In this dissertation, the Lithuanian adjectival definiteness marking (ADM) is analysed from a cross-linguistic comparative perspective. Through situating it in a typological context and comparing with mostly Slavonic and Germanic (customarily Scandinavian, occasionally Dutch) languages, the study …
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Definiteness and Specificity in Second and Third Language Acquisition of Mandarin Chinese
… by investigating the acquisition of (in)definiteness and (non-)specificity by L2 and L3 Mandarin speakers with prior knowledge of Cantonese and/or English. While English has an article system marking the [±definite] features but not the [±specific] features, Mandarin and Cantonese realise …
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Article semantics in second language acquisition
… that articles cross-linguistically may encode definiteness or specificity. The definition of specificity that is adopted is based on Fodor and Sag's (1982) view of specificity as speaker intent to refer. The behavior of referential this, a specificity marker in colloquial English, is examined, …
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Multifidelity Covariance Estimation Three Ways
… estimator can be subject to loss of positive-definiteness. Given this liability, we subsequently develop two multifidelity covariance estimators which preserve positive definiteness by construction, utilizing, to varying degrees, the geometry of the manifold of symmetric positive definite …
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Slice sampling on Riemannian manifolds
… distribution for this sampler and positive semi-definiteness of the corresponding operator. Moreover, on compact Riemannian manifolds we show uniform ergodicity with explicit constants for the geodesic slice sampler if the target distribution has a bounded density with respect to the Riemannian …
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Quantization of Fields of Arbitrary Spin
… on is expressed in terms of certain positive definiteness requirements on the eigenvectors corresponding to the non-zero eigenvalues of Lo. By restricting the. discussion to a specific type of theory, in which spin states are not repeated, these positive definiteness requirements are expressed …
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Effects of input-and output-based instruction on the acquisition of English articles
… on the acquisition of English articles regarding definiteness and genericity. For this study, 21 participants were recruited from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, including 15 second-language English speakers and six native English speakers. The L2 participants were randomly …
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Aspects of Chinese syntax: Ergativity and phrase structure
… word order variation, locative inversion, definiteness effects, quantification and scope effects of inverted subjects can be explained if it is recognized that Chinese has both unergative (accusative) and ergative-type structures.
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Floating and Non-floating Quantifiers in Hijazi Arabic: an HPSG Analysis
… agreement behaviours and semantic properties. • Definiteness in HA is a head feature and is associated with no lexical category, and for that we might claim that HA lacks the category Determiner (D). • Contrary to the analysis provided in some transformational approaches, floating and …
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Negation and Aspect: A comparative study of Mandarin and Cantonese varieties
… the aspectual markers are argued to encode definiteness (a la Ramchand 2008a, b) and only indefinite aspects are compatible with negation involving méiyǒu, mou5 or mau5 since definite aspects impose existential presupposition on the predicates which clashes with the non-existence semantics …
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Some complexities in English article use and acquisition
… simple to explain (in that the does not encode definiteness or contextual uniqueness) nor strictly idiomatic. This paper a) provides an overview and critique of the scholarship on articles and their acquisition, b) takes a detailed look at several of the complex usages (noun phrases with …
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Determination and modification in English and Tonga: a contrastive account
… and modifiers as well as how the concepts of definiteness and indefiniteness are realized in Tonga. The study based its conclusion on the data collected from both primary and secondary sources. Monze and the confines of the University of Zambia were the principle study areas. For primary data, …
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Determination and modification in English and Tonga: a contrastive account
… and modifiers as well as how the concepts of definiteness and indefiniteness are realized in Tonga. The study based its conclusion on the data collected from both primary and secondary sources. Monze and the confines of the University of Zambia were the principle study areas. For primary data, …
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The proxy point method for rank-structured matrices
… definite (SPD) matrices. Preserving positive definiteness is essential for rank-structured matrix approximations to be used efficiently in various algorithms and applications, e.g., the preconditioned conjugate gradient method. We propose two methods for constructing HSS approximations to an …
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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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Agreement as a fallible operation
… of affairs; these include Object Shift, the Definiteness Effect, and long-distance wh-movement. The thesis examines data from the Kichean languages of the Mayan family (primarily from Kaqchikel), as well as from Basque, Icelandic, and French.
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Dynamic simulation of heart mitral valve with transversely isotropic material model
… employed with a modification to ensure positive definiteness of the constitutive tensor at low strains. The shell formulation is introduced as a computationally less expensive alternative to the use of 3D elements. A 4-node shell with mixed interpolation of transverse shears is implemented. To …
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