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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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The Use of Definite Articles in Romance Languages: Diffusion or Independent Development

January 2019 (has links)
abstract: Over the centuries, definite articles in Romance languages have expanded their use to include generic, collective, and abstract nouns, essentially becoming noun markers. This usage is not confined to just a few languages, either, but is found in most, if not all, Romance languages, major and minor. This thesis examines the question of how this came to be, whether through diffusion from one language to all others, or through independent parallel development. I first trace the history of definite articles in three major Romance languages, French, Spanish, and Italian, starting with the emergence of the definite article in Late Latin as it derived from Classic Latin demonstratives. It includes an analysis of the use of definite articles in six works of literature, one in each language from the late thirteenth century, and one in each language from around the year 1500. The results show definite articles were used more frequently than expected in the earlier Spanish work, perhaps hinting at diffusion from Spain. Nevertheless, placing these results in historical context, I argue that this use arose through independent parallel development through the process that gave birth to definite articles in the first place - grammaticalization. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Linguistics and Applied Linguistics 2019
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Matrix Balls, Radial Analysis of Berezin Kernels, and Hypergeometric

Yurii A. Neretin, neretin@main.mccme.rssi.ru 21 December 2000 (has links)
No description available.
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The Semantics of Ellipsis

Elbourne, Paul January 2005 (has links)
There are four phenomena that are particularly troublesome for theories of ellipsis: <br>the existence of sloppy readings when the relevant pronouns cannot possibly be bound; an ellipsis being resolved in such a way that an ellipsis site in the antecedent is not understood in the way it was there; an ellipsis site drawing material from two or more separate antecedents; and ellipsis with no linguistic antecedent. <br>These cases are accounted for by means of a new theory that involves copying syntactically incomplete antecedent material and an analysis of silent VPs and NPs that makes them into higher order definite descriptions that can be bound into.
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Definites in Chinese You Existential Sentences

Sie, Bao-yu 07 September 2007 (has links)
This study deals with the Definiteness Effect (DE) in Chinese you existential sentences from pragmatic perspectives and the scope is confined to the formal written style with discourse environments. The data used for analysis is the United Daily News Corpus and the data selection is restricted to the definite NPs which are considered unacceptable in you existential sentences: proper names, pronouns, demonstratives, universal quantifications, most-NPs, and superlative. The data for analysis in this study consist of 119 natural occurrences and the results reveal that definite NPs can occur in you existential sentences and the contexts where they appear consist of adjunct clauses and complement clauses embedded under the matrix verb. It is also observed that you existential sentences can assert the existence of entities or events and definite NPs can represent given information. I suggest that the Definiteness Effect is a misnomer and the restriction imposed on you existential sentences is derived from the non-application of ¡§identification¡¨ in existential sentences. Definite NPs are only allowed in you existential sentences when they are used to identify the entities. If the postverbal NPs are to introduce or present the entities into the discourse, definite NPs are ruled out. In addition, it is argued that if the definite NPs are anaphoric and thus given information, they are used to draw the addressee¡¦s attention to the presence of entities or events; namely, they serve as focusing topics. It seems odd to view them only as topic-introducing constructions.
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Scattered data approximation on the rotation group and generalizations

Schmid, Dominik January 2009 (has links)
Zugl.: München, Techn. Univ., Diss., 2009
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A history of the definite integral

Kallio, Bruce Victor January 1966 (has links)
The definite integral has an interesting history. In this thesis we trace its development from the time of ancient Greece (500-200 B. C.) until the modern period. We place special emphasis on the work done in the nineteenth century and on the work of Lebesgue (1902). The thesis is divided into four parts arranged roughly chronologically. The first part traces the developments in the period from the fifth century B. C. until the eighteenth century A. D. Secondary sources were used in writing this history. The second part recounts the contributions of the nineteenth century. The original works of Cauchy, Dirichlet, Riemann, Darboux, and Stieltjes are examined, the third part is concerned with the development of measures in the latter part of the nineteenth century. This work leads to the Lebesgue integral. The final part is a brief survey of modern ideas. / Science, Faculty of / Mathematics, Department of / Graduate
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The Riemann Definite Integral of a Bounded Real Function

Hendrick, H. Wayne January 1950 (has links)
The object of this paper is to define, to establish necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of, and to consider the elementary properties of the Riemann definite integral of a bounded function.
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A Study of Language Attitudes Concerning the De-Affication of /tʃ/, the Pronunciation of the /tɾ/ Consonant Cluster, and the Use of the Definite Article with Proper Names in Santiago, Chile

Dixon, Ian J. 15 December 2010 (has links) (PDF)
This thesis analyzes the linguistic attitudes of natives from Santiago, Chile regarding three linguistic phenomena present in Chilean Spanish of Santiago: the fricative realization of the Spanish /tʃ/, the assibilated realization of /tɾ/ and the use of the definite article before the first names of people. The social factors of age, sex and socioeconomic status are acknowledged as possible factors contributing to the linguistic attitudes of the 64 participants interviewed.
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Ensuring Positive Definiteness in Linear Viscoelastic Material Functions Based on Prony Series

Rehberg, Christopher D 01 January 2020 (has links)
This thesis presents a method to correct for non-positive-definiteness in linear viscoelastic material functions. Viscoelastic material functions for anisotropic materials need to be interconverted in a matrix coefficient prony series form, with a requirement of positive definiteness. Fitting is usually done as a uniaxial prony series, resulting in scalar coefficients. When these uniaxial coefficients are placed in a coefficient matrix, the required positive definiteness cannot be guaranteed. For those matrices that do not meet this requirement, finding the nearest symmetric semi-positive definite form of the matrix results in a viable prony series matrix coefficient with the required positive definiteness. These corrected prony series coefficients allow for material functions to be interconverted with minimal changes to experimental data.
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Formální vyjádřování kategorie určenosti v albánštině. Popis na základě srovnání s angličtinou. / Formal Expression of Definiteness in Albanian: A Description Based on Comparison with English

Backus Borshi, Orkida January 2016 (has links)
This thesis describes the means of expressing the category of definiteness in Albanian. Inasmuch as this category has not been comprehensively analyzed in this language so far, the starting point of the thesis is the description of this category in English which, by contrast, has been subject to a detailed analysis by many authors from different aspects both theoretical and practical. Keywords: Albanian, English, definite article, definite form, reference, contrastive description

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