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A-Z 89GrammarsHübschmann, H. 1897. Armenische Grammatik. Leipzig. (3rd repr. Hildesheim and New York1972.)Kogian, S.L. 1949. Armenian grammar (west dialect). Vienna.Meillet, A. 1913. Altarmenisches Elementarbuch. Heidelberg. (Repr. New York, 1981.)——1936. Esquisse d’une grammaire comparée de l’arménien classique, 2nd edn. Vienna.Minassian, M. 1980. Grammaire d’Arménien oriental. Delmar, NY.Schmitt, R. 1981. Grammatik des Klassisch-Armenischen mit sprachvergleichenden Erläuterungen.Innsbruck.DictionaryBedrossian, M. 1879. New dictionary Armenian—English. Beirut.Annual of Armenian LinguisticsRevue des Études ArméniennesJournalsarrow1 In comparative linguistics, the arrow, as well as the ‘>,’ is used to indicate historicaldevelopmental processes and should be read ‘becomes’ or ‘changes to.’2 In formal logic, the arrow is a symbol for logical connectives of implication: p→qreads ‘p implies q’ or ‘if p, then q.’3 In generative transformational grammar, the arrow is a symbol for replacementprocesses (also: expansion symbol): S→NP+VP means ‘replace the symbol S with thesymbols NP and VP.’ The double arrow symbolizes the application of a transformation:A+B B+A means ‘transform the symbols A and B into the symbol chain B and A.’ (also permutation)article [Lat. articulus ‘joint’]Term from traditional and structural grammar for a grammatical category with twoelements: definite articles (the) and indefinite articles (a, an). These elements are nowgrouped with determiners and, in the case of alan, quantifiers. There are no articles inLatin or in most Slavic languages. In English, French, and German, an article occurs