abstractsince heubner's (1985) pioneering study, there have been many studies on (mis) use/ non-use of articles by l2 learners from article-less and article languages the present study investigated how persian l2 learners of english produce and interpret english definite descriptions and demonstrative descriptions it was assumed that definite and demonstrative descriptions share the same centra...

On the semantics of determiners in a rich type-theoretical framework The variation of word meaning according to the context led us to enrich the type system of our syntactical and semantic analyser of French based on categorial grammars and Montague semantics (or lambda-DRT). The main advantage of a deep semantic analyse is too represent meaning by logical formulae that can be easily used e.g. ...

* This research was partially supported by ITRC, # 500/8478 Summary Protection of private data is one of the most challenging issues threatening the success of Pervasive Computing (PC). Regarding the principles of privacy and the vision of pervasive computing, one of the most troublesome problems is how to provide people's control of their data while not distract them to a great extent. A suita...

Some new algebras, which are possible denotations for various determiners, are studied. One of them is the algebra of generalised cardinal quantifiers which is a sub-algebra of conservative quantifiers and which contains cardinal, co-cardinal and proportional quantifiers. In addition some non-conservative quantifiers are studied (symmetric, contrapositional and fixed points with respect to the ...

In this paper, I address the categorial status of quantifiers and similar expressions in German. Traditionally, they are assigned either of two classes: determiners and adjectives. I argue that German quantifiers in principle are ambiguous and can be realized alternatively as determiners or adjectives. The categorial status is mirrored by the declension of attributive adjectives following these...

In 3 experiments, native speakers of German named pictures of 1 or 2 objects by producing singular or plural noun phrases consisting of a definite gender-marked determiner and a noun. When singular and plural determiners differed (masculine and neuter gender), naming latencies were longer for plural utterances than for singular utterances. By contrast, when singular and plural determiners were ...

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