Vocatives with determiners: the case of vocatives preceded by possessives

In some varieties of Spanish (American, above all), possessives can appear in vocative constructions such as Mi niña, ¿qué haces? (lit. ‘My girl, what are you doing?’) in contrast to the generalization that vocatives refuse definite articles (Bosque 1996, Leonetti 1999, 2016). The aim of this invest...

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Main Author: Laura González López
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2020
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/52914d899ce64a328d93a8c663aa9e3d
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