Achieving specificity in an articleless language: Specificity markers in Croatian

The main goal of the paper was to detect specificity markers in Croatian. As specificity is in a close relation to (in)definiteness, markers of (in)definiteness such as articles are standardly used as indicators of specificity as well. However, detecting specificity in articleless languages becomes...

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Matična publikacija: Suvremena lingvistika
75 (2013), 39 ; str. 25-43
Glavni autori: Katunar, Daniela (-), Willer Gold, Jana (Author), Gnjatović, Tena
Vrsta građe: Članak
Jezik: eng
Online pristup: http://bib.irb.hr/datoteka/636710.sl75_2_katunar_willer_gnjatovic_izvorni.pdf
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