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dc.identifier	ECF_article_1269
dc.title	Other Observations about otro
dc.contributor.author	Brugè Laura
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	es
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/rassegna-iberistica/2017/108/otras-reflexiones-sobre-otro/
dc.description.abstract	In modern Spanish otro shows complex properties. In some cases it behaves like a quantifier, in other cases like an adjective, and in others like an indefinite determiner. Studying the interpretive and syntactic behaviour of this element, this article shows that otro is a determiner-like adjective that contributes to define the referential index of the noun phrase. I show that this was the case in Old Spanish and that it is the case in modern Italian. For this reason, I propose that in indefinite contexts an unpronounced determiner UN enters syntax in the head of the DP and otro must move to the Spec.DP position. Furthermore, I argue that the two readings of otro, i.e. “a further token(s) of x” and “a further type(s)/kind(s) of x”, are associated with two different positions inside the extended projections of the NP.
dc.relation.ispartof	Rassegna iberistica
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 40 \| Issue 108 \| December 2017
dc.issued	2017-12-13
dc.dateAccepted	2017-06-05
dc.dateSubmitted	2017-02-21
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2037-6588
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.14277/2037-6588/Ri-40-108-17-2
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Determiner-like adjective
dc.subject	Determiner-like adjective
dc.subject	Extended projection of the noun phrase
dc.subject	Extended projection of the noun phrase
dc.subject	Italian
dc.subject	Italian
dc.subject	Silent head
dc.subject	Silent head
dc.subject	Spanish
dc.subject	Spanish

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Other Observations about otro

Laura Brugè Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Italia

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abstract

In modern Spanish otro shows complex properties. In some cases it behaves like a quantifier, in other cases like an adjective, and in others like an indefinite determiner. Studying the interpretive and syntactic behaviour of this element, this article shows that otro is a determiner-like adjective that contributes to define the referential index of the noun phrase. I show that this was the case in Old Spanish and that it is the case in modern Italian. For this reason, I propose that in indefinite contexts an unpronounced determiner UN enters syntax in the head of the DP and otro must move to the Spec.DP position. Furthermore, I argue that the two readings of otro, i.e. “a further token(s) of x” and “a further type(s)/kind(s) of x”, are associated with two different positions inside the extended projections of the NP.

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Dec. 13, 2017

Accepted

June 5, 2017

Submitted

Feb. 21, 2017

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Keywords: Extended projection of the noun phrase • Silent head • Italian • Determiner-like adjective • Spanish

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