Vocatives and Other Direct Address Forms: A Contrastive Study

Vocatives and Other Direct Address Forms: A Contrastive Study

In this paper I analyze Russian direct address forms, both the distinct truncated vocative and nominative-case direct address forms. I contrast the formal and functional restrictions on the truncated vocative with vocatives in other languages (e.g. Czech and Polish), and I compare the interpolation...

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Main Author: Lilli Parrott
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Oslo 2010-12-01
Series:Oslo Studies in Language
Online Access:https://journals.uio.no/osla/article/view/68
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spelling doaj-082201d9b7484632bd2637219a1de8002020-11-25T03:41:07ZengUniversity of OsloOslo Studies in Language1890-96392010-12-012110.5617/osla.68Vocatives and Other Direct Address Forms: A Contrastive StudyLilli ParrottIn this paper I analyze Russian direct address forms, both the distinct truncated vocative and nominative-case direct address forms. I contrast the formal and functional restrictions on the truncated vocative with vocatives in other languages (e.g. Czech and Polish), and I compare the interpolation of Russian direct address forms in an utterance to the situation in English. While similarities are found both in the form and the usage of Russian direct address forms with those in other languages, the prosodic and syntactic constraints in English are considerably stronger than in Russian, which means that the punctuating function of direct address forms is considerably more flexible in Russian than in English.https://journals.uio.no/osla/article/view/68
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title Vocatives and Other Direct Address Forms: A Contrastive Study
title_short Vocatives and Other Direct Address Forms: A Contrastive Study
title_full Vocatives and Other Direct Address Forms: A Contrastive Study
title_fullStr Vocatives and Other Direct Address Forms: A Contrastive Study
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description In this paper I analyze Russian direct address forms, both the distinct truncated vocative and nominative-case direct address forms. I contrast the formal and functional restrictions on the truncated vocative with vocatives in other languages (e.g. Czech and Polish), and I compare the interpolation of Russian direct address forms in an utterance to the situation in English. While similarities are found both in the form and the usage of Russian direct address forms with those in other languages, the prosodic and syntactic constraints in English are considerably stronger than in Russian, which means that the punctuating function of direct address forms is considerably more flexible in Russian than in English.
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