A short note on honorifics and personal articles in Spanish and Catalan and its consequences for the theory of proper names

Building on recent findings in Bernstein et al. (2019), regarding the syntactic distribution of personal articles in Catalan and honorifics in Spanish, I propose that they are pure expressives (in Potts’ (2005) sense) that take an entity as argument and return the same entity at the at-issue level a...

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Published in:	Isogloss Vol. 7
Main Author:	Andrés Saab
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 01-04-2021
Subjects:	Catalan expressives honorifics personal articles proper names Spanish
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Summary:	Building on recent findings in Bernstein et al. (2019), regarding the syntactic distribution of personal articles in Catalan and honorifics in Spanish, I propose that they are pure expressives (in Potts’ (2005) sense) that take an entity as argument and return the same entity at the at-issue level and a conventionally implicated proposition in a parallel meaning dimension. If this analysis turns out to be correct, the expressive / proper name interaction in these languages will constitute a new piece of evidence against the predicative analysis of proper names. Reviewed by: José Camacho Francesc Roca
ISSN:	2385-4138
DOI:	10.5565/rev/isogloss.142