Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: Vocative! 1
4. The vocative in Georgian 25
5. Vocative for nominative 43
6. The vocative and its kin: marking function through prosody 87
7. On the structure of vocatives 109
8. Features and strategies: the internal syntax of vocative phrases 133
9. Addressing changes in the Bulgarian vocative 157
10. Du Idiot! Din idiot! Pseudo-vocative constructions and insults in German (and Swedish) 189
11. Vocative and the grammar of calls 219
12. Mexican güey – from vocative to discourse marker: a case of grammaticalization? 235
13. The vocative case between system and asymmetry 269
14. Vocatives as functional performance structures 283
15. On the case of the vocative 305
16. Language index 319
17. Subject index 321