'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 dete...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: José Camacho
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2019-04-01
Series:Glossa
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Online Access:https://www.glossa-journal.org/articles/774