Vocatives : how syntax meets with pragmatics

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.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hill, Virginia (Author)
Other Authors:	Stavrou, Melita
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2013]
Series:	Empirical approaches to linguistic theory ; 5.
Subjects:	Grammar, Comparative and general > Noun. Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax. Pragmatics. Forms of address. pragmatics. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Grammar & Punctuation. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Syntax. Forms of address Grammar, Comparative and general > Noun Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax Pragmatics
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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.