A short note on honorifics and personal articles in Spanish and Catalan and its consequences for the theory of proper names

• Andrés Saab ^{[1] [2]}
  1. [1] Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

     Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

     Argentina

     
  2. [2] Universidad de Buenos Aires

     Universidad de Buenos Aires

     Argentina

     
• Localización: Isogloss: Open Journal of Romance Linguistics, ISSN-e 2385-4138, Vol. 7, 2021
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.5565/rev/isogloss.142
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• Resumen

  • Building on recent findings in Bernstein et al. (2019), regarding the syntactic distribution of personal articles in Catalan and honorifics in Spanish, I propose that they are pure expressives (in Potts’ (2005) sense) that take an entity as argument and return the same entity at the at-issue level and a conventionally implicated proposition in a parallel meaning dimension. If this analysis turns out to be correct, the expressive / proper name interaction in these languages will constitute a new piece of evidence against the predicative analysis of proper names.  reviewed by:José CamachoFrancesc Roca

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