Title Vocatives : how syntax meets with pragmatics / by Virginia Hill ; with the contribution of Melita Stavrou.

Publication Info.	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2013]
	©2013

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Description	1 online resource.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Empirical approaches to linguistic theory ; v. 5
	Empirical approaches to linguistic theory ; 5.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Summary	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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Subject	Grammar, Comparative and general -- Noun.
	Grammar, Comparative and general -- Noun.
	Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
	Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
	Pragmatics.
	Pragmatics.
	Forms of address.
	Forms of address.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Author	Stavrou, Melita.
Other Form:	Print version: Hill, Virginia, author. Vocatives 9789004260795 (DLC) 2013036176 (OCoLC)861322879
ISBN	9789004261389 (electronic book)
	9004261389 (electronic book)
	9789004260795
	900426079X