Referentiality in Spanish Noun Phrases
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2863249 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nelson Rojas (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1977 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 61 |
| Publication date | 1977-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/413055 |
| OpenAlex | W2334137086 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 5 |
This paper questions the basic claim of M.-L. Rivero's ‘Referential properties of Spanish noun phrases’ (Lg. 51.32–48)—i.e., that a correlation exists between the ‘specificity’ of the head NP, as she calls it, and the mood of the dependent relative clause. It is demonstrated here that the indicative mood accepts both ‘specific’ and ‘non-specific’ NP's, and that the sentences in the subjunctive mood are either ungrammatical or are actually in the indicative mood. Moreoever, it is shown that the traditional distinction between referential and attributive NP's should not be interpreted as a distinction between specific and non-specific NP's. The final sections of the paper point out that Rivero's data do not show conclusively that existential import affects definite and indefinite NP's alike, nor that these two types of NP's receive their existential interpretation through the same linguistic means
Determiner phrase · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Nominalization · Noun · Noun phrase · Specifier · Computer Science · History · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,1 |
| Citation span | 1977 - 2024 (48) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |