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In:Approaches to Interlinguistics and Esperanto Studies
Edited by Ilona Koutny and Nicolau A. Dols Salas
[Studies in World Language Problems 12] 2027
► pp. 309–323

Chapter 20
Use of the article in spoken Esperanto

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Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Definiteness as a universal notion
  • 3.Definite article in Esperanto
  • 4.Method and corpus
  • 5.Discussion
    • Indefinite/definite opposition
    • Random use of the article
    • Non-use of the article La
    • Definite article ‘la’ with unintroduced and non-generic elements
    • Article La and adjectives (definite)
    • Article La with numbers (definite)
  • 6.Conclusions
  • Author queries
  • Bibliography
  • Appendix
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