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Peer reviewedMaleczki, Marta – Language Sciences, 1996
Suggests that there are universal constraints that explain the so-called "Definiteness Effect," i.e., the fact that certain constructions do not allow for definite arguments in certain positions. The article founds its proposal on the analysis of data from Hungarian and English. (15 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Contrastive Linguistics, English, Hungarian
