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Portuguese — Why use definite articles in front of possessive nouns? Why the extensive use of proposition contraction?
I can speak Spanish and French, and I am currently learning Portuguese. During my learning, I realized that there are some unique features in Portuguese — I don't speak Italian, so I don't know if ...
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Floating quantifiers in X-bar theory: "the men all have gone"
In chapter 9 of Syntax: A generative Introduction (2nd ed), Carnie shows that we can solve some problems by generating subjects in Spec of VP and letting them move to Spec of TP. In the first ...
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Does "a" in "I made a mistake" denote indefiniteness? [closed]
I made a mistake.
Here, "a" is called the indefinite article in contrast with the definite article "the".
But does "a" in this sentence denote indefiniteness?
As far as I can tell, "a" is needed ...
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weak definite article in Engish linguistics
I may be wrong, but I don't seem to have come across the term 'weak definite article' in English linguistics though I think I've encountered it in German or French linguistics. (I've read 'weak ...
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What do Determiners determine? [closed]
Source: An Introduction to Language (10 ed, 2014) by V Fromkin, R Rodman, N Hyams
[p 86:] For example, determiners specify whether a noun is indefi-
nite or definite (a boy versus the boy), or ...
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Possessive determiner depending on grammatical gender of owner
Consider possessive determiners when the owner is a third person.
In many languages, the determiner depends on the natural gender of the speaker (English: he-she-it) or, in languages with grammatical ...
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The notion of monotonicity
I am slightly confused bu the notion of upward-monotonicity and downward-monotonicity.
I cannot understand what exactly can be defined as upward-monoty and down-ward-monotony, is this definition of ...
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What is a group of determiners called?
Verbs, auxiliaries and modals constitute the verb group (Vgp).
Is there an official term used to describe a [group of determiners] (pre-, central-, post-) that pre-modify the noun in the NP? In the ...
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Quantifier (Noun Phrase + Prepositional Phrase); what are they called?
I'm having a really hard time searching for the exact term to refer to quantifiers that are of NP+PP combinations. E.g.: a lot of, lots of, a bit of, plenty of, a number of, an amount of, etc. "Basic" ...
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