The Balkan Definite Article and Pseudo-Second Position
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The BMJ, the definite article.
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), theBritishMedical Journal (1857-1988), andBMJ (1988-2014). Now it gets a fifth, with the inclusion in its name of the definite article. The journal formerly known as BMJ will now be formally known as The BMJ. This ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society
سال: 1992
ISSN: 2377-1666,0363-2946
DOI: 10.3765/bls.v18i1.1593