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Categoría, función y sentido de los gentilicios

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    Almela Pérez, Ramón
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    Almela Pérez, Ramón

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    Formát:
    Journal article
    Jazyk:
    Spanish; Castilian
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    Vydáno:
    Universidad de Extremadura: Servicio de Publicaciones 2013
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    Anuario de estudios filológicos ISSN 0210-8178 Vol. 36, 2013, pags. 5-18
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    This paper discusses three linguistic concepts (category, function, sense) generally attributed to gentilicios (i.e. names given in Spanish to the people from a particular place). According to their behaviour, gentilicios lend themselves to classification both as adjectives and as nouns. All gentilicios, including those that denote human beings and those that denote non-human beings or entities, can function as adjectives or nouns. However, on a scale ranging from the adjective pole to the noun pole the behaviour of gentilicios is closer to adjectives. Of the two main types of adjectives (relational and descriptive ones), gentilicios fall systematically within the relational type. Nevertheless, a substantial amount of relational adjectives are susceptible to descriptive use. As for the two main functions of adjectives (attributive and predicative positions), we can conclude that gentilicios function primarily as predicative adjectives and secondarily as attributive adjectives. When in predicative position, the most common sub-function of gentilicios is specification. By virtue of this function the noun modified by a relational gentilicio is located in a specific place in the world. Finally, I will analyse the semantic properties of gentilicios. The most common senses of relational gentilicios are identification and classification, but when used as descriptive adjectives, gentilicios can be interpreted as expressing analogy.


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