The article presents a survey of the state of conservation of the vocative case and its morphological markers in standard Slavic languages. It gives an account of the simplifications that have occurred at the paradigmatic level and outlines the principles underlying the replacement of the vocative with the nominative – or basic form – in the languages where both cases are found as alternative or concurrent strategies. In this context, the article shows a type specialization of vocative forms to express the speaker’s personal relation to the receiver, and, at the same time, an increasingly frequent usage of the nominative/basic form as an actual form of call/appeal. Finally, by listing the different groups of Slavic languages in an order according to their degree of formal and functional maintenance of the vocative, a model for a degrammaticalization process is proposed, valid for all Slavic languages: conservation > alteration > contraction > elimination.
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Titolo del capitolo
Il vocativo nelle lingue slave: un quadro articolato
Autori
Andrea Trovesi
Lingua
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0216-9.05
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Anno di pubblicazione
2023
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© 2023 Author(s)
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Titolo del libro
Studi contrastivi di linguistica slava: grammatica e pragmatica
Curatori
Rosanna Benacchio, Lucyna Gebert
Autori
Andrea Trovesi
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
204
Anno di pubblicazione
2023
Copyright
© 2023 Author(s)
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Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0216-9
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0215-2
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0216-9
Collana
Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici
ISSN della collana
2612-7687
e-ISSN della collana
2612-7679