The evolution of a coordinator from a vocative source: the case of the disjunctive ja: in Jordanian Arabic [PDF]
This research paper proposes that a vocative can be a potential source of coordination, thus it adds to the literature on the grammaticalization of coordinators.
Abdulazeez Jaradat
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Prosodic Transfer in Contact Varieties: Vocative Calls in Metropolitan and Basaá-Cameroonian French
This paper examines the production of vocative calls in (Northern) Metropolitan French (MF) and Cameroonian French (CF) as it is spoken by native speakers of a tone language, Basaá.
Fatima Hamlaoui +2 more
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Vocatives with determiners: the case of vocatives preceded by possessives
In some varieties of Spanish (American, above all), possessives can appear in vocative constructions such as Mi niña, ¿qué haces? (lit. ‘My girl, what are you doing?’) in contrast to the generalization that vocatives refuse definite articles (Bosque 1996,
Laura González López
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Multimodal Skills, but Not Motor Skills, Predict Narrative and Expressive Pragmatic Skills in Children With Typical Development and Neurodevelopmental Disorders. [PDF]
ABSTRACT To see whether communicative‐based multimodal skills (compared to non‐communicative motor skills) predicted complex language skills, this study examined the predictive power of multimodal and motor skills on narrative and expressive pragmatic abilities across two groups. Participants were children with typical development (N = 88, Mage = 5.34,
Florit-Pons J +4 more
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Vocatives and Vocative Particles in the Syntax-pragmatics Interface in Persian [PDF]
Vocatives are small but important expressions in the meaning of an utterance. They are defined as a means of drawing an addressee's attention, in order to “establish or maintain a relationship between this addressee and some proposition” (Lambrecht, 1996,
Abbas Ali Ahangar, Zahra Mozaffari
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VOKATIVE AS AN ELEMENT OF UKRAINIAN SPEECH ETIQUETTE (SPECIAL FEATURES AND TRENDS IN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE NEWEST COMMUNICATIVE DISCOURSE) [PDF]
The dichotomy “language and speech” will never disappear as a part of research from linguistic studies. These two phenomena nourish and rich each other. Vocative is one of such cross-points between language and speech in Ukrainian.
Olena M. Turchak
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The paper traces the dynamics of the interpretation of the grammatical nature of the vocative in Ukrainian grammars from the 16th century until the present.
Natalia Kobchenko +2 more
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Loss of the vocative case and its reflection in Old and Middle Russian monuments of business writing
The purpose of this article is to describe the loss of the vocative case in Russian language on the material of Old and Middle Russian monuments of business writing.
T. V. Khadyeva
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This paper takes a critical interactional sociolinguistic approach to examine the construction ofinterculturality(e.g., Nishizaka 1995; Mori 2003) through the use of vocatives in the discourse of a multi-cultural graduate student project group at a large American university.
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A Pragma-Syntactic Study of Vocative in Selected English Novels
This paper attempts to investigate the syntactic-pragmatic relationship associated with vocative use in two English novels–namely, Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (1813) and Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises (1926).
Hussein Al-Hassnawi, Hussein Ibrahim
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