The Distribution of two Indefinite Articles – The Case of Uzbek Klaus
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The aim of this paper is to show that Uzbek has the crosslinguistically rather unusual property of using two indefinite articles, namely the expressions bir and bitta. From a synchronic perspective the two indefinite articles can be shown to compete (at least in certain environments), and from a diachronic perspective there is evidence that bitta significantly expands to the expense of bir. The in-depth investigation of corpus data and data from an online-questionaire contributes to the discussion of the diachronic development of indefinite articles in general.
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تاریخ انتشار 2011