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Downing, Bruce T. 1969. Vocatives and third person imperatives. Papers in Linguistics 1 : 570–592.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject

Annotation

A proposal for a way of accounting for certain constraints on the form and semantic reference of vocative expressions and third-person subjects of English imperatives, by invoking a notion of subset relation between referential indices.