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 ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (258 pages) :; illustrations |
Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- A formal twist for the same old story
- Back to the (theoretical) drawing board : was Ross right after all?
- The core of the matter : identifying and interacting with the addressee
- The system behind the noise
- The Speech Act connection : particles of direct address
- The vocative and the clause
- Ramifications--the imperative.