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