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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Language: | English |
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Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
2022-11-01
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Series: | Isogloss |
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Online Access: | https://revistes.uab.cat/isogloss/article/view/226 |