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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Chapter Title
Il vocativo nelle lingue slave: un quadro articolato
Authors
Andrea Trovesi
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0216-9.05
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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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© 2023 Author(s)
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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