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MORA-BUSTOS, Armando; ORTIZ VILLEGAS, Alejandra Itzel  y  GARCIA ZUNIGA, H. Antonio. A determiner with meaning: The case of su/sus. Iztapalapa. Rev. cienc. soc. humanid. [online]. 2019, vol.40, n.86, pp.11-39. ISSN 2007-9176.  https://doi.org/10.28928/ri/862019/atc1/moraa/ortizvillegasai/garciaa.

The proclitic su/sus modifies nouns of different semantic properties. In this paper it is shown that this proclitic is a determiner with meaning. It encodes a set of binary fea- tures (definiteness/anaphora-cataphora, possession/ relation, proximity/empathy); those features are distributed on a hierarchical scale. They are activated on contextual discourse. In this proposal, possession is understood as a relationship that is established between an entity that appears in the possessor’s domain and an entity that can be owned or transferred. The su/sus features are described in simple and complex noun phrases; in a noun phrases like su celular de Ramon, su encodes definiteness/cataphora, the preposition de expresses the possession. The corpus used in this study is Proyecto para el Estudio Sociolinguístico del Español de España y de América (PRESEEA). It was used a second corpus, it is composed of high school and university students’ conversations. The results presented show relevant facts to provide a detailed explanation of the polysemy of third-person possessive proclitics.

Palabras llave : Nominal phrase; definiteness; deixis; possession; relation; proximity; empathy.

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