We present in this paper a review on the linguistic literature on the types of uses of definite descriptions (noun phrases with the definite article the). Definite descriptions have been studied extensively by linguists, philosophers, psychologists, and computational linguists. The theories discussed in this paper help us to understand the problem of interpreting definite descriptions. We look ...

The modeling of spatio-temporal processes is crucial in many fields such as environmental science, hydrology, and water storage engineering. A basic concept the model an auto-covariance function. stream network based on Euclidean distance function for investigating river pollution will potentially face a serious accuracy problem, due to material or pollutant movement only occurring within trave...

The acquisition of definite articles has often been related to the acquisition of functional categories (see e.g. Radford, 1990; Clahsen, 1996; Penner & Weissenborn, 1996), since definite articles belong to the functional category (FC) D. Under this view, a problem that remains unsolved is why children pass through a stage in which they produce some definite articles, while at the same time the...