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 (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 249-269 |
| Number of pages | 21 |
| Journal | Probus |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Sep 1 2021 |
Keywords
- camouflage
- ghosting
- imposters
- impoverishment
- usted
- ustedes
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Language and Linguistics
- Linguistics and Language