Un tal Ernestico/a certain Ernestico: On the structure of proper names
Proper names are usually assumed to be definite. In this paper we question this assumption by analyzing the Spanish construction un tal ‘X’ ‘a certain ‘X’’. We show that ‘un tal ‘X’’ has two meanings, one evidential and one evaluative, and with the evidential meaning the determiner must be indefinit...
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| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2019-04-01
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| Series: | Glossa |
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| Online Access: | https://www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/5151/ |