Vocative!: Addressing Between System and Performance
Vocatives have rarely been comprehensively discussed in their various facets. With 12 contributions covering the diversity of vocative marking, structures, and functions, as well as the relevance of vocatives for theoretical and methodological reasoning, this volume contributes to closing a significant gap in linguistic research. It provides a detailed picture of the vocative as a structure between 'system' and 'performance'.
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Vocatives have rarely been comprehensively discussed in their various facets. With 12 contributions covering the diversity of vocative marking, structures, and functions, as well as the relevance of vocatives for theoretical and methodological reasoning, this volume contributes to closing a significant gap in linguistic research. It provides a detailed picture of the vocative as a structure between 'system' and 'performance'.
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- Publication Date:2013.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):De Gruyter
- Place of Publication:Berlin
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2013.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (330 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9783110304176, 3110304171, 9783110303896, 3110303892
- DOI:10.1515/9783110304176
- oclc:ocn858761809
- LC Classification:P240.6 .V63 2013
- Dewey Decimal:415.5
Table of Contents
Introduction: Vocative!; The vocative in Georgian; Vocative for nominative; The vocative and its kin: marking function through prosody; On the structure of vocatives; Features and strategies: the internal syntax of vocative phrases; Addressing changes in the Bulgarian vocative; Du Idiot! Din idiot! Pseudo-vocative constructions and insults in German (and Swedish); Vocative and the grammar of calls; Mexican güey -- from vocative to discourse marker: a case of grammaticalization?; The vocative case between system and asymmetry; Vocatives as functional performance structures.
On the case of the vocativeLanguage index; Subject index.
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