Provocative Vocatives: Slurs as Expressives.
Fifty years ago, Zwicky demonstrated the slur‐neutral counterpart vocative divergence thesis (SNCVD):Slurs occur freely as vocatives. Neutral counterparts do not. In this article, I craft a novel problem for theories of slurs. The Vocatives Problem is the challenge to explain the SNCVD. I argue that...
| Publicado en: | Philosophical Perspectives Vol. 38; no. 1; pp. 41 - 54 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Dec2024
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