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Vocative! : Addressing between System and Performance / ed. by Patrizia Noel Aziz Hanna, Barbara Sonnenhauser.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 261Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (323 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110303896
  • 9783110304176
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 415.5
LOC classification:
  • P240.6 .V63 2013
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- 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 vocative -- Language index -- Subject index
Summary: 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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Frontmatter -- 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 vocative -- Language index -- Subject index

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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'.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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