(1986). The use of the definite and indefinite articles by Italian preschool children. ABSTRACT In deciding whether to use a definite or indefinite referring expression a speaker must apply a pragmatic rule: the definite article is usually appropriate if the listener is already familiar with the referent, and the indefinite article if not. Several studies have investigated at what age this rule...

by introducing two counterexamples, gettier claims that it is possible that a person s has true justified belief that p but fails to know that proposition. the proposition p in gettier’s first counterexample includes a “definite description”. we try, in this article, to refute gettier’s first counterexample by means of what russell, strawson and donnellan have said on the analysis of the propos...

Growing interest in visual languages has triggered new extended research into the specification and parsing of multi-dimensional structures. The paper discusses the need for a visual specification formalism and introduces such a technique by augmenting logic programming with picture terms which can be considered as partially specified pictures. We define how to match picture terms and how to in...

This paper suggests an analysis of Modern Hebrew noun phrases in the framework of HPSG. It focuses on the peculiar properties of the definite article, including the requirement for definiteness agreement among various elements in the noun phrase, definiteness inheritance in constructstate nominals, the fact that the article does not combine with constructs and the similarities between construct...

A new emu (Emuarius guljaruba, sp. nov.) is described from the Late Oligocene Etadunna Formation (Ngama Local Fauna), based on a complete tarsometatarsus. While exhibiting evidence of cursorial abilities advanced over those of cassowaries (Casuarius), this taxon was not as cursorially adapted as the living Emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae). This taxon is provisionally referred to the genus Emuariu...

Hassan Ait-Kaci introduced the #/-term, an informational structure resembling feature-based functional structures but which also includes taxonomic inheritance (Ait-Kaci, 1984). We describe e-terms and how they have been incorporated into the Logic Grammar formalism. The result, which we call Inheritance Grammar, is a proper superset of DCG and includes many features of PATR-II. Its taxo-nomic ...

Let H be any complex inner product space with inner product < ·, · >. We say that f : | C → | C is Hermitian positive definite on H if the matrix ( f(< z,z >) )n r,s=1 (∗) is Hermitian positive definite for all choice of z, . . . ,z in H, all n. It is strictly Hermitian positive definite if the matrix (∗) is also non-singular for any choice of distinct z, . . . ,z in H. In this article we prove...

In the linguistic literature many different uses of definite descriptions are acknowledged and explained (Fraurud 1990, Hawkins 1978, Löbner 1985, Prince 1992). These authors give us taxonomies of the different uses of the definite article. Based on these previous works we ran two experiments in annotating definite description uses whose goals were: 1. to observe the distribution of the differe...