Abstract In this paper, we focus on Spanish hearer-oriented particles like the highly frequent verb-based particle mira (lit. ‘look’). We provide a detailed syntactic account of these by demonstrating (i) that they must be distinguished from both vocative/appellative and expressive/exclamative particles, (ii) feature illocutionary restrictions familiar class discourse in languages other than Sp...

This paper aims to analyze the interpretation of vocatives and cat[1]egory vocativeness within school subject Croatian language regarding phonetic, phonological morphological, syntactic, orthographic pragmat[1]ic-semantic vocative features on corpus contemporary lan[1]guage textbooks for primary secondary education selected according final result selection from “Catalog approved 2020/2021 year”...

A threefold inscription scratched on a tile found in the surroundings of Reggio Calabria, dating back to late 2nd century BCE, evidences for insults addressed slaves employed local pottery. Both context and abusive terms point controversy broken out among colleagues within place work. The offensive words reveal Greek-Latin bilingualism, which Latin plays role language first learned used everyda...

In this paper, I investigate the formation and phonological alternations of Korean monosyllabic hypocoristics that are used without a vocative marker. result truncation merging. The study showed inclination to keep second syllable is more pronounced in truncated forms. most common type merging ‘onset 1st + rhyme 2nd syllable’. This illustrates symmetrical base anchoring template, which template...

The construction [X, you are/were Y], where X is a spatio-temporal addressee, widely attested on Dutch social media. We investigated this in Twitter corpus, and found that users use the to tell their audience about current or recent experience at location addressed, while same time evaluating said experience. Reference first-hand not overtly expressed, yet it an essential interpretive aspect of...

This article proposes a ‘topological’ reinterpretation of the extended nominal architecture in relation to southern Italo-Romance vocatives with and without allocuzione inversa (‘address inversion’, Renzi 1968), phenomenon involving ‘inverse’ lexical indexation speaker-addressee relationship (reg.It. Mangia, papà! ‘Eat up, little one!’, father child). Topological Mapping Theory (Longobardi 2005...