Chapter Pragmatic aspects of the vocative-nominative competition in addressative function across Slavic languages

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Florence Firenze University Press 2023
• Series: Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici
• Subjects: Inter Slavic contrastive approach; Pragmatic strategies; Slavic standard languages; thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism; Vocative case
• Online Access: Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication; Open Access: DOAB, download the publication
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (16 p.)
• ISBN: 979-12-215-0216-9.08; 9791221502169
• Access: Open Access

The study tests the hypothesis according to which the Slavic anthroponyms in -e and -o underwent evolution from vocative endings to hypocoristic derivative suffixes and then to anthroponymic formants. According to the Author, such a hypothesis can be considered entirely plausible, albeit only as a mechanism of formation parallel to and intertwined with other processes of morphemic function change. As a phenomenon observable in both diachrony and synchrony, categorial lability between vocative and word formation can thus be considered inherent in the system of Slavic languages. However the anthroponyms in -e and -o have had different diffusion and distribution in the various Slavic languages and today occupy dissimilar places within the system and varieties of each language.