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LING Colloquium: Daniel Gutzmann (U of Cologne)

Time: 
Friday, November 12, 2021 - 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Location: 
Online: https://umd.zoom.us/j/7141237857

In-person watch party in 1108B Marie Mount Hall.

You linguist! On vocatives and expressivity

Abstract: In this talk, I will develop a syntactic and semantic analysis of German expressive vocatives (eVocs), which consists of a second person pronoun and an expressive nominal part. I will document the special properties of eVocs and identify three structural subtypes (autonomous, parenthetical, integrated) and will shown that none of the previous semantic analysis of vocatives can deal with eVocs. I will suggest a new semantic approach according to which integrated eVocs are the most basic ones, consisting of a pronoun and expressive modification. Parenthetical and autonomous eVocs are then extensions of the integrated version, just adding an activational vocative function and an exclamational component respectively. Furthermore, it is argued that syntactically, eVocs consist of a D-element—the pronoun—which has to select for an expressive complement.