Properhood of human unique nouns in Romance languages

This paper provides evidence that human unique nouns such as king constitute a peripheral group of lexemes within the word class of common nouns. In semantic definite contexts, they semantically resemble proper names with respect to monorefentiality and can therefore morphosyntactically behave like...

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Main Author: Javier Caro Reina
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2022-11-01
Series:Isogloss
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Online Access:https://revistes.uab.cat/isogloss/article/view/226