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Structuring Variation in Romance Linguistics and Beyond: In honour of Leonardo M. Savoia
Edited by Mirko Grimaldi, Rosangela Lai, Ludovico Franco and Benedetta Baldi
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 252] 2018
► pp. 271–282

Chapter 18
Are Sardinian vocatives perfectly regular?

| University of Paris III
| University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès

The aim of this contribution is to honor Leonardo Savoia with some reflections concerning a topic which has received little attention until recent years: the case of Vocatives. If according to D’Alessandro & Van Oostendorp (2016: 78) Vocatives are perfectly regular, typological data show on the other hand that in many languages this is not the case. More specifically, we present and discuss the question of the shape of the Vocatives found in Logudorese Sardinian. We shall bring new data that confirm the view expressed among others in the seminal work of Uspensky & Zhivov (1977) and Floricic (2002, 2011), according to which Vocatives are in many respects exceptional.

Keywords: Vocatives, Sardinian, truncation, appeal plane
Article outline
  • Introduction
  • 1.On Vocatives in Sardinian
  • 2.The syntax of Vocatives
  • 3.Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 19 December 2018
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