In those Slavic languages where the vocative inflectional case endings are used inconsistently, a statistically increased occurrence of vocative’s endings can be observed with nouns having a diminutive or hypocoristic semantics. Assuming that is the ‘affective charge’ of some specific nouns which enhances the probability of vocative case forms, the present paper has two aims: 1. to verify empirically in three Slavic languages (Serbian, Polish, Bulgarian) whether the vocative case is better preserved with nouns having a derogatory semantics (insults and bad words), 2. to establish which are the rules governing their use.
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Chapter Title
Concorrenza e/o alternanza di ‘vocativo: nominativo’ nei termini volgari in serbo(croato), polacco e bulgaro. Un’analisi qualitativa
Authors
Andrea Trovesi
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0216-9.11
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Publication Year
2023
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Book Title
Studi contrastivi di linguistica slava: grammatica e pragmatica
Editors
Rosanna Benacchio, Lucyna Gebert
Authors
Andrea Trovesi
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
204
Publication Year
2023
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Publisher Name
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
Series Title
Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici
Series ISSN
2612-7687
Series E-ISSN
2612-7679