The prototypes of definiteness and indefiniteness in English are the definite article the and the indefinite article a/an, and singular noun phrases (NPs) determined by them. That being the case it is not to be predicted that the concepts, whatever their content, will extend satisfactorily to other determiners or NP types. However it has become standard to extend these notions. Of the two categ...

Selected Dialectal Pronouns from South-Eastern Poland (Outline)
 The author of this article discusses the structure, origin and functions dialectal pronouns which occur in local dialect Posada Jaśliska near Krosno. is a village three cultures: Polish, Lemko Slovakian. describes mutual influences these languages on shaping collection pronouns, with particular emphasis that are typical area ...

Numerous grammatical items can only be understood if the context is taken into account. In order to provide a formal treatment of this problem, we introduce the nonon of knowledge base into linguistics. After having worked out a hard core system of rules for analysing numerals, definite articles, and indefinite articles, we give a thorough study of the French singular definite article le. This ...

0. Introduction In this paper we attempt to provide a homogeneous description of definite and indefinite noun phrases. We therefore assume one semantic representation for one interpretation that the definite article the and the indefinite article a share. Our starting point is the classical theory of descriptions as developed by Russell in his famous article of 1905, " On Denoting. " In the fir...

A two-level analysis method for certain separable problems is introduced. Unlike standard two-level analysis methods, based on Fourier analysis, it is based on spectral analysis, hence applicable to non-normal problems and to certain problems with variable coeecients. It motivates the deenition of improved versions of Black Box Multigrid for diiusion problems with discontinuous coeecients and i...

INTRODUCTION Recent research on the language of children of SLI shows a marked delay in their acquisition of grammatical morphemes, especially those associated with the verbal system (e.g., Rice and Oetting, 1993; Rice, Wexler and Cleaver, 1996). In English, the nominal system is morphologically poorer than the verbal system, which may account for the discrepancy observed in the two systems of ...