Buddies , Dudes , and Bros of Ontario: Trends and Patterns of Vocative Change.
This study tracks the use of familiarizer vocatives across the twentieth century in Ontario, Canada from a corpus comprising 11 million words of conversational interviews from individuals in eighteen communities, born between the 1880s and the 2000s. Vocatives are a richly variable grammatical categ...
| Publicado en: | Journal of English Linguistics Vol. 53; no. 2; pp. 107 - 137 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Jun2025
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