This study addresses the acquisition of the morphological markers in Persian learners of English as a foreign language. To this end, the accuracy order of nine morphemes including plural –s, progressive –ing, copula be, auxiliary be, irregular past tense, regular past tense –ed, third person –s, possessive -ʼs and indefinite articles was studied in 6...

The aim of this paper was to determine the role specificity in English article suppliance L1 Serbian speakers. Its impact on definite (the), indefinite (a/an), and zero (Ɵ) determined based a 40-item questionnaire. items were classified into four groups defined by combinations two semantic features: [±specific] [±definite]. Differences studied between group non-English language majors order tak...

The fact that concepts are grammaticalized differently in different languages is a major problem for translation, especially for machine translation. Two major examples of this are syntactic number, and the use of (in)definite articles (a, some, the). In languages such as English, nouns are marked for number and the choice of article (or of no article) must be made for every noun phrase. In con...

This paper deals with an analysis of transcribed recordings of spontaneous classroom interaction in five classes of primary school students in early EFL learning in Croatia. The study was conducted within the framework of a large research project supported by the Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sports. The students involved in this study started learning English at the very beginnin...

When an OWL ontology, together with SWRL rules, is defined or verbalized in controlled natural language (CNL) it is important to ensure that the meaning of CNL statements will be unambiguously (predictably) interpreted by both human and machine. CNLs that are based on analytical languages (namely, English) impose a number of syntactic restrictions that enable the deterministic interpretation. S...

One of the major problems when translating from Japanese into a European language such as German or English is to determine definiteness of noun phrases in order to choose the correct determiner in the target language. Even though in Japanese, noun phrase reference is said to depend in large parts on the discourse context, we show that in many cases there also exist linguistic markers for defin...

Perlmutter (1970) argued that the indefinite article is categorically different from the definite article and proposed that it is a clitic version of the numeral "one". But there are, as Perlmutter himself pointed out, instances of "a" as well as of "one" that don't seem to have the semantics of the numeral. Hence a divorce of "a" (and of "one") from "numeral"-hood is called for. Furthermore, t...