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Article #15Re: Spanish "personal a" query
From: German Fernandez
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 14:12
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 14:12
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In article <1992Oct28.070359.44206@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>,
miner@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes...
> (a) Quiero ver una bailari'n.
> (b) Quiero ver a una bailari'n.
>
>Is this nothing more than the standard distinction made in
>contemporary lingustics between referring and non-referring NPs?
>If so, "personal a" would indicate that the speaker has a particular
>dancer in mind in (b), but in the case of (a), the speaker has no
>particular dancer in mind; any one will do.
You are right. (Except for your example, it should be "un bailari'n" or
"una bailarina"!!)
, ,
German Fernandez, alias GERMAN@CERNVM.CERN.CH
PS. I'm not a linguist, but I'm Spanish...
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Newsgroups: sci.lang Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!dxcern!vxcrna.cern.ch!german From: german@vxcrna.cern.ch (German Fernandez) Subject: Re: Spanish "personal a" query Message-ID: <28OCT199215125747@vxcrna.cern.ch> News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41 Sender: german@vxcrna.cern.ch (GERMAN,FERN./EP) Organization: European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN References: <1992Oct28.070359.44206@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 14:12:00 GMT Lines: 17