'Uno que otro': A distributive indefinite in Mexican Spanish
In Mexican Spanish, the indefinite quantifier “uno que otro” is used to refer to low cardinalities of entities separated in space or time. Even though they have a strictly singular form, noun phrases with “uno que otro” always refer to more than one entity. And, despite their notional content of pl...
Main Authors: | José Fernando Chapa Barrios, Violeta Vazquez Rojas |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Septentrio Academic Publishing
2023-06-01
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Series: | Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics |
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Online Access: | https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/borealis/article/view/6737 |
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