Spanish usted as an imposter

Chris Collins; Francisco Ordóñez

doi:10.1515/prbs-2021-0006

Spanish usted as an imposter

Chris Collins
, Francisco Ordóñez

Linguistics

New York University

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Abstract

Across dialects, Spanish uses the third person forms usted and ustedes to refer to the addressee. In this squib, we propose an imposter analysis of these forms in the framework of Collins and Postal (2012. Imposters. MIT Press, Cambridge.).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	249-269
Number of pages	21
Journal	Probus
Volume	33
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1515/prbs-2021-0006
State	Published - Sep 1 2021

Keywords

camouflage
ghosting
imposters
impoverishment
usted
ustedes

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