On the structure of vocatives

Abstract

Although it has been much debated in linguistic theory (Coene et al. 1999; Moro 2003; Hill 2007; D’hulst et al. 2007; Stavrou 2009), the first of these two questions remains to a certain extent still unresolved, at least if we try to account for new data such as those expressions that involve complex vocatives. The second question arises as an attempt to correlate the syntax of vocatives with the syntax of other structures, such as copular sentences (Higgins 1979), in order to challenge the common view that the study of vocatives is not a topic to be addressed as part of the core grammar.

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