Publication Date:
2024-04-04
Description:
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.
Keywords:
Vocative case
;
Nominative case
;
Slavic languages (Serbian
;
Polish
;
Bulgarian)
;
Derogatory words
;
Competing inflectional case endings
;
thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics
;
thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism
Language:
Italian
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