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portada Vocatives: How Syntax Meets with Pragmatics
Type
Physical Book
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Publisher
Language
English
Pages
258
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
23.9x16x2 cm
Weight
0.54 kg.
ISBN13
9789004260795
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Vocatives: How Syntax Meets with Pragmatics

Virginia Hill (Author) · Brill · Hardcover

Vocatives: How Syntax Meets with Pragmatics - Hill, Virginia

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Synopsis "Vocatives: How Syntax Meets with Pragmatics"

Vocatives proposes a formal syntactic approach to vocatives. The analysis focuses on the internal structure of vocatives phrases and on the mechanism through which a vocative phrase connects with the clause. Vocatives are nouns that encode conversational pragmatic features at their left periphery. Any vocative phrase with this structure becomes the indirect object of a Speech Act head mapped at the left periphery of clauses. This analysis has implications for the debate on whether pragmatic features are mapped into syntax, and, subsequently, on how a grammar of direct address may look like. Since particles of direct address, imperatives and exclamations fall under the same umbrella of speech acts, they all need re-assessment from the same perspective. "This book is a tour de force: Virginia Hill brings the vocative a category which had so far remained marginal and ill understood into main stream syntactic research by tying it in with recent progress in the study of the syntactization of pragmatic functions. What used to be a fringe phenomenon will now be part of the core theory." Liliane Haegeman, Ghent University"Virginia Hill has redrawn the syntax-pragmatics interface by nudging syntax into domains that are traditionally considered to be purely pragmatic in nature. She has done this with sophisticated analysis and a breathtaking array of cross-linguistic data."Shigery Miyagawa, Massachusetts Institute of Technology"Vocatives are a fundamental yet strangely neglected aspect of the grammar of many languages. General readers intrigued and perhaps puzzled by the nature of vocatives and how they are expressed cross-linguistically will find this a very helpful and enlightening book."Martin Maiden, University of Oxford"

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