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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Abuladze, Lia,; Donati, Margherita,; Espinal, M. Teresa,; Girvin, Cammeron,; Göksel, Aslι,; Hill, Virginia,; Janson, Tore,; Kleinknecht, Friederike,; Ludden, Andreas,; Meibauer, Jörg,; Noel Aziz Hanna, Patrizia,; Pöchtrager, Markus A.,; Sonnenhauser, Barbara,; Stetter, Christian,; Stifter, David,; d’Avis, Franz,
• HerausgeberIn: Noel Aziz Hanna, Patrizia,; Sonnenhauser, Barbara,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 261
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (323 p.)

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 signific...

Table of 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