Sobre la 'imprecisión' de "cierto"

This paper explores the view according to which the determiner cierto conveys a deliberate imprecision as part of its semantic meaning and, correspondingly, can be characterized as a “marker of approximation” or “slack regulator” widening the pragmatic halo of the expressions in which it occurs. The...

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Main Author:	Fernández Ruiz, Graciela
Format:	Online
Language:	Spanish
Editor:	El Colegio de México 2015
Subjects:	marcadores de aproximación determinantes indefinidos inferencias pragmáticas semántica cierto slack regulators indefinite determiners pragmatic inferences semantics
Online Access:	https://nrfh.colmex.mx/index.php/nrfh/article/view/1190
Journal:	Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica