Les actualisateurs de généricité de la nomination ethnique dans le récit viatique by Esfandiar Esfandi, Afsaneh Pourmazaheri

“…We study the linguistic means of the writing of otherness by focusing on the treatment of generalizing actualizers, in particular the definite article "the" (in its singular and plural form), of the ethnic nomination [the Persan-s] in five (5) texts of French travelers from the early 19th century : C.M. …”
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Noun phrase in Cape Verdean by Wânia Miranda

“…Several scholars consider the "kel"particle, for example, as a definite article. However, the definiteness is not necessarily expressed in this particle and, in Cape Verdean, bare nouns can also come with this particle. …”
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La llengua al nord del País Valencià by Andreu Beltran Zaragozà

“…There are seven phonetic phenomena: an unpalatalized production of /tS/, the survival and loss of intervocalic /d/, the opening of initial /e/, the disappearance and survival or/r/and some plosives at the end of words; in addition, the paper contains six sections on morphology, noun flexion, the masculine definite article, the degrees of demostratives and locatives, the allomorphic varieties of first and third person of indicative present, subjunctive present and subjunctive imperfect in first conjugation verbs. …”
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Pragmatic and grammatical factors affecting the interpretation of number terms by Gala Villaseñor, Ittay Gil Carrillo

“…We present evidence from an experimental study showing that exact readings of number terms under certain grammatical constructions (with a quantifier or predicative function as well as when preceded by a definite article) are preferred by speakers even under certain pragmatic contexts in which intervalar readings could be derived. …”
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Form, its meaning, and dictionary entries by Violetta Koseska-Toszewa

“…Naturally, in the above languages the definite article form can also express uniqueness of an object or a set, so it also expresses definiteness. …”
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Gammes de mémoire by Dominique Viart

“…The Memory is not this simple and unique function that the definite article improperly determines. It includes many facets and modalities, addressed by philosophy and whose functioning can be analyzed with the help of neuroscience. …”
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Anaforická funkce výrazu ten v gramatikalizační perspektivě || Anaphoric function of the demonstrative ten in grammaticalization perspective by Magdalena Zíková

“…In this way, two functions are identified in the anaphoric use: (i) contextualizing, and (ii) strongly demonstrative, none of which seems to be a plausible source of potential grammaticalization of the demonstrative into a definite article.…”
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Classifying pronouns: the view from Romanian by Alexandra Cornilescu, Alexandru Nicolae

“…By means of the suffixal definite article, Romanian provides a contrast between definite modifiers, which prove to be DP-internal, and non-definite modifiers, which prove to be DP-external. …”
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Planning, history … and the environment? (editorial) by Gold, John Robert, Gold, Margaret

“…When preceded by the definite article, a focus on the environment would seem to imply something rather different from what is normally seen in this journal - at least with regard to that term's contemporary meaning and emotive associations. …”

Situations, presuppositions, and descriptions by Read, AJL

“…It is rarer still to find consensus on the status of these implications when the definite article is embedded in a variety of syntactic environments. …”

Emphatic assimilation across morpheme boundaries in Jordanian Arabic by Mutasim Al-Deaibes, Marwan Jarrah, Ekab Al-Shawashreh, Rami Alsharefeen

“…The consonants of the bound morphemes tested include the genitive/accusative suffix-initial consonant /h/, the active participle prefix-final consonant /t/, and the definite article-final consonant /l/, in terms of emphasis. …”
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Absences d’article et zones d'empiètement by Samir Bajrić

“…It happens as soon as we add the median extensities, not reducible to the traditional scale known as “definite article” – “indefinite article” – “zero article”.…”
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The case for weak null in English by Andrew Tollet

“…Yet, while this may applicable in the case of predicates nouns denoting unique roles, certain institutions where the referent is pragmatically unique, or coordinate structures with a preceding referent, there is persuasive evidence to suggest a considerable number of other null structures do not fit such a description but, on the contrary, share common characteristics with the weak form of the definite article or occupy more of a neutral position which would permit insertion of either one of the surface articles. …”
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An Arabic Dataset for Disease Named Entity Recognition with Multi-Annotation Schemes by Nasser Alshammari, Saad Alanazi

“…Additionally, five linguistic features, including part-of-speech tags, stopwords, gazetteers, lexical markers, and the presence of the definite article, are provided for each record in the dataset.…”
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Strengthening, exhaustification, and rational inference by Asherov, Daniel, Fox, Danny, Katzir, Roni

“…By varying the scenarios in which an expression such as “Pick the crate with a banana” is evaluated, we show that the strengthening of “crate with a banana” within the scope of the definite article parallels the entailments of “crate with only a banana” (with an overt exhaustivity operator, ‘only’). …”
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Indefinite determiners in two northern Italian dialects by Gianluca E. Lebani, Giuliana Giusti

“… Italian and Italian dialects express indefiniteness in different ways, among which with a null determiner (ZERO) like all other Romance languages, but also with the definite article (ART) unlike what is found in Romance. …”
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Der s-Plural im Alemannischen. by Andreas Klein, Kristin Kopf

“…While masculine and neuter nouns can express number syntagmatically (using articles that differ in singular and plural), feminine nouns rely heavily on suffixes (as the definite article is d’ in both cases). A comparison of the -s plural with traditional dialectal plurals shows clear advantages for -s plurals in both cue strength (output) and scope (input) of the plural schema. …”
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Microvariation in the Distribution of Resumptive Pronouns in the Left Dislocation Construction in Two Tyrolean Dialects of Northern Italy by Federica Cognola, Jan Casalicchio

“…While in standard German resumptive elements in this construction belong to the class of D-pronouns, the two Tyrolean dialects considered in the paper exhibit, as resumptive pronouns, both (i) D-pronouns and (ii) pronominal usages of the distal demonstrative formed by the definite article (D) and <i>sèll</i> corresponding to ‘that one’. …”
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Article Drop and Case Marking in Romanian by Ion Giurgea

“… In Romanian, the definite article cannot be overtly realized if the maximal nominal projection contains only the lexical N and occurs in the complement position of (most) accusative-taking prepositions. …”
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Towards A New Approach For Arabic Root Extraction:Exploit Relations Between The Word Letters And Their Placement In The Word For Arabic Root Extraction by Fatma Abu Hawas

“…The first one deals with the rules that distinguish between the Arabic definite article “ال -AL” and the permanent component “ال -AL” that may found in any Arabic word. …”
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