La modalisation du nom propre

Gary-Prieur, Marie-Noëlle

doi:10.3406/lfr.1991.6211

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“…Further discussion of modified proper names in English and French can be found in Sloat (1969), Kleiber (1981), Gary-Prieur (1991), Jonasson (1994), Kayne (1994), Paul (1994), Gärtner (2004), Borer (2005) and Matushansky (2006b).…”

Section: Restrictive Modificationmentioning

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On the linguistic complexity of proper names

Matushansky

2008

Linguist and Philos

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While proper names in argument positions have received a lot of attention, this cannot be said about proper names in the naming construction, as in ''Call me Al''. I argue that in a number of more or less familiar languages the syntax of naming constructions is such that proper names there have to be analyzed as predicates, whose content mentions the name itself (cf. ''quotation theories''). If proper names can enter syntax as predicates, then in argument positions they should have a complex structure, consisting of a determiner and its restriction, like common nouns (cf. ''definite description theories of proper names''). Further consideration of the compositional semantics of proper names in the naming construction also shows that they have another argument slot, that of the naming convention. As a result, we will be able to account for the indexicality of proper names in argument positions and provide compositional semantics of complex and modified proper names (e.g., the famous detective Sherlock Holmes).

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Section: Restrictive Modificationmentioning

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“…One such case is what Boër (1975) and Gary-Prieur (1991 call the metaphoric use of the proper name, where the phonological sequence corresponding to the proper name is no longer interpreted as proper in any way:…”

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On the linguistic complexity of proper names

Matushansky

2008

Linguist and Philos

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“…The cases of proper name coercion were discussed in Boër (1975) and Gary-Prieur (1991 The shift that happens in (65) can be thought of as a shift to kinds, either presupposing properties that all the people with this name share (65a) or the properties of a single known individual with a certain name (65b-c). This is strongly reminiscent of how proper names function in the construction we are discussing.…”

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This Is So NP!

Bylinina¹

2010

Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communica

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The construction we are discussing is a recent American English construction (though it can be found in a number of other languages as well) with an individual-denoting noun phrase (NP) in the predicate position modified by a degree modifier that typically occurs with gradable adjectives, as in 'This is so Obama!' We attempt to look deeper into the structure and compositional semantics of this construction, and though we do not provide a complete analysis of it, we believe that the study of this construction can contribute to questions of gradable predicate semantics, multidimensionality, degree constructions and proper name semantics. 1. THE CONSTRUCTION Some examples of the construction we will be discussing are in (1-2) (examples from web): (1) a. Matching shirt and hat is so McDonalds. (≈cheap, unfashionable) b. Buying DVDs is so 2004! (≈out-of-date) c. Yeah, that is so Obama! (≈cool) (2) a. Ad: "How to dance at a club or party: An analytical approach" Comment: "This is so Google!" This Is So NP! 2 b. this is SO PARIS ! absolutely amazing ! (about a fashion show) c. I preferred rural France, Paris is so Paris. d. It is SO New York City in the 1970s! (about Buenos Aires) e. It is a masterpiece video. The way it's put together, it is so New York. f. My mom is so Berkley (a name of a Facebook group) 1.1. The degree environment The striking property of the construction is the degree environment that the NP appears in. There is nothing particularly strange in a NP showing gradable behavior, see a recent discussion of 'gradable nouns' in Morzycki (2009a): (3) a. George is an enormous idiot! (=1 Morzycki 2009a) b. Gladys is a big beer-drinker. c. Three huge goat-cheese enthusiasts were arguing in the corner.

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“…« Le nom propre représente dans le langage un certain paradoxe : il s'applique en permanence à un individu, alors que l'individu est ce qui change constamment » 4 : cette affirmation, qui n'est pas de Proust mais de Marie-Noëlle Gary-Prieur, s'applique bien à l'univers proustien. Le langage possède, pour pallier ce "paradoxe", un certain nombre de ressources.…”

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“…Selon la « perspective référentialiste », « la détermination du nom propre modifie sa fonction de désignation individuelle ; le nom propre ne désigne plus directement et entièrement son référent attitré mais un autre référent ou une 'facette' de ce réfèrent » constructions peuvent fonctionner de la même manière ; « la structure nom propreadjectif, par exemple, est dans certains contextes très voisine de l'emploi modifié de type "manifestation" : Cicéron philosophe ne vaut pas Cicéron orateur vs le Cicéron philosophe ne vaut pas le Cicéron orateur » 9 . 4 Les noms des personnages proustiens sont souvent l'objet d'emplois modifiés. Le Narrateur distingue une « Albertine aussi connue de [lui] qu'il était possible, […] une Albertine […] ne désirant rien d'autre […] qu'être avec [lui], toute pareille à [lui], image de ce qui précisément était [sien] et non de l'inconnu » 10 (RTP, III, p. 583) de la période de la captivité, de « cette Albertine qui me connaissait encore à peine » (RTP, III, p. 698) (la construction n'est pas ici employée anaphoriquement, vu qu'elle ne se réfère pas au « porteur du nom propre mentionné explicitement auparavant à l'aide du nom propre standard » 11 ), désirable être de fuite sur la plage de Balbec.…”

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La modalisation du nom propre

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On the linguistic complexity of proper names

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