Vocatives as functional performance structures

Noel Aziz Hanna, Patrizia und Sonnenhauser, Barbara (2013): Vocatives as functional performance structures. In: Sonnenhauser, Barbara und Noel Aziz Hanna, Patrizia (Hrsg.): Vocative! Addressing between System and Performance. Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs, Bd. 261. Berlin: De Gruyte. S. 283-304

Abstract

The vocative is morphologically marked only in some languages; not infre-quently, it merely occurs in a constrained set of paradigms. Unless they are morphologically marked, vocatives are classified as typical elements of performance; yet they are both signalled and interpreted in systematic ways by syntactic and/or prosodic non-integration. As a category of usage, the vocative challenges the polarity of system vs. performance. This paper offers a syntagmatic account of vocatives. To account for the two-sided nature of vocatives, they are analysed here as functional performance structures, i.e. as syntagmatic categories with indexical function

• Dokumententyp: Buchbeitrag
• Fakultät: Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften > Department 2 > Slavische Philologie
• Themengebiete: 400 Sprache > 490 Andere Sprachen
• ISBN: 978-3-11-030417-6 ; 978-3-11-030389-6
• Ort: Berlin
• Sprache: Englisch