"Se retiró la Agustina hecha un veneno": "artículo determinado + antropónimo" en documentación judicial del siglo XVIII
ISSN: 1139-1146
Año de publicación: 2012
Título del ejemplar: Cuestiones de Historia de la Lengua y documentos
Número: 15
Páginas: 47-75
Tipo: Artículo
Otras publicaciones en: Revista de investigación lingüística (RIL)
Resumen
In this paper I will examine the use of the structure «defi nite article + proper name» (el Antonio) using a corpus of documents from the Kingdom of Granada (comprised of Granada, Malaga and Almeria) from the 18th century. The corpus is made up of twenty one witnesses statements from ten trials. Previous diachronical studies have shown that using a defi nite article before a person´s name, as if to redefi ne them, is the speaker´s way of expressing a negative opinion of that person. I want to test whether the examples found within our corpus also express this negative valoration. Apart from studying the structure «article + proper name», we analyse other structures with anthroponym also used to refer to the protagonists of the statements: «the aforementioned + proper name» (el dicho Juan Pérez), bare proper name (Juan Pérez), explicative apposition (Juan Pérez, alcalde del lugar) and restrictive apposition (el abogado Juan Pérez).