Re: Articles with propper names (was RE: Same name (was ...))

> Irina Rempt wrote:
>
> On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Carlos Eugenio Thompson (EDC) wrote:
>
> > All dialects uses article (or posesive pronoun) with titles.
>
> Also when a name is used with the title, like "the doctor Jones"?
>
Yes.  Except for don/doña or titles with posesive pronoun already in
(_misia_, _usia_), names with titles uses a definite article or a posesive
pronoun:
  el señor Pérez
  el doctor González
  el señor Pedro
  don Camilo
  misia Helena
  mi coronel Ramírez

There is also common to use the definite article _la_ with a last name when
talking about women.  If article is omited a lastname will probably suggest
a man.

Note that article is dropped in the vocative.
  ¡Señor Pérez!
  ¡Doctor González!
  ¡Señor Pedro!
  ¡Don Camilo!
  ¡Misia Helena!
  ¡(mi) Coronel Ramírez!

-- Carlos Th