Re: [tied] Vocative case in Romance

On Sun, 10 Nov 2002 13:57:10 +0100, alexmoeller@... wrote:

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>From: "Miguel Carrasquer" <mcv@...>
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>Subject: Re: [tied] Vocative case in Romance
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>> For non-soft a:-stems, yes (except in Slavic lgs. which have
>lost the
>> Vocative, where Nom. -a is used).
>>
>> The full array of Vocative endings is:
>>
>> i-stems: Voc -i
>> u-stems: Voc -u
>> C-stems/u:-stems: (Voc. = Nom.)
>> a:-stems: Voc -o
>> ja:-stems: Voc -(j)e
>> o-stems: Voc -e
>> jo-stems: Voc. -(j)u
>>
>> >Are slavic languages the only languages with vocative in
>"o"?
>>
>> Probably not, but the only relevant ones.
>
>[Moeller]
>So, we have a slavic vocative in "-e" for words ending in "o"

No, for Slavic "o-stems". The nominative and accusative ended in -U,
later zero (after the loss of -U and -I). Slavic o-stems are borrowed
as Romanian "o-stems" (i.e. words ending in -u, later zero).

>Rom. words ending in "a".There is too hard to find any because
>rom. doesnt end in "a" but mostly in "ã".

So what?


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