The Diversity of Vocative Formation Across Languages
The present study reviews manifestations of vocatives in a wide range of typologically related and unrelated languages and identifies three major patterns: particles, suffixes and non-concatenative forms such as intonation contours. It is shown that regardless of their shape vocatives systematicall...
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2025-02-01
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The present study reviews manifestations of vocatives in a wide range of typologically related and unrelated languages and identifies three major patterns: particles, suffixes and non-concatenative forms such as intonation contours. It is shown that regardless of their shape vocatives systematically encode not-at-issue meaning, particularly the speaker’s evaluation of the type of social relationship with the addressee and the perceived physical distance. It is demonstrated that optional vocative markers are most efficiently treated as modifiers of speech acts, whereas mandatory vocative morphemes function as nominal modifiers that mark the noun as incompatible with argument positions and only appropriate for the speech act type address.
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| spelling | doaj-art-c79404bc24f64b35a5b4aa59719b74802025-08-20T02:11:09ZcatUniversitat Autònoma de BarcelonaCatalan Journal of Linguistics1695-68852014-97192025-02-0124110.5565/rev/catjl.475The Diversity of Vocative Formation Across LanguagesJakob Maché0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8567-1185Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa The present study reviews manifestations of vocatives in a wide range of typologically related and unrelated languages and identifies three major patterns: particles, suffixes and non-concatenative forms such as intonation contours. It is shown that regardless of their shape vocatives systematically encode not-at-issue meaning, particularly the speaker’s evaluation of the type of social relationship with the addressee and the perceived physical distance. It is demonstrated that optional vocative markers are most efficiently treated as modifiers of speech acts, whereas mandatory vocative morphemes function as nominal modifiers that mark the noun as incompatible with argument positions and only appropriate for the speech act type address. https://revistes.uab.cat/catjl/article/view/475callsnon-concatenative morphologyvocativeallocutive agreementcaseparticles |
| spellingShingle | Jakob Maché The Diversity of Vocative Formation Across Languages Catalan Journal of Linguistics calls non-concatenative morphology vocative allocutive agreement case particles |
| title | The Diversity of Vocative Formation Across Languages |
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| title_short | The Diversity of Vocative Formation Across Languages |
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