Vocatives : : how syntax meets with pragmatics / / by Virginia Hill ; with the contribution of Melita Stavrou.

Vocatives proposes a formal syntactic approach to vocatives. The analysis focuses on the internal structure of vocatives phrases and on the mechanism through which a vocative phrase connects with the clause. Vocatives are nouns that encode conversational pragmatic features at their left periphery. A...

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Superior document:Empirical approaches to linguistic theory, volume 5
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden : : Brill,, 2014.
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Empirical approaches to linguistic theory ; 5.
Physical Description:1 online resource (258 pages) :; illustrations
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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