Re: [tied] Vocative [Re: yellow]

Slavic has -e as the overwhelmingly most common voc.sg. ending in masculines (in some minor declensions it has -i or -u instead). Feminines in -a have vocatives in -o (we've been through it before). Rom. -a, -a are nominatives functioning as vocatives -- a trivially common phenomenon (also found in Slavic).

Piotr

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> Miguel Carrasquer wrote:
> > On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 14:31:03 -0000, "tolgs001 <gs001ns@...>"
> > <gs001ns@...> wrote:
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> >> Miguel Carrasquer wrote:
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> >>> Of the cases, the vocative was lost
> >>
> >> but the vocative is still extant in Romanian,
> >> isn't it?
> >
> > In view of the feminine vocative -o, I think it more likely that the
> > vocative was lost as everywhere else in Romance, and was reintroduced
> > from Slavic
> >
> > =======================
> > Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> > mcv@...
> >
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> It can be a possiblity. And the rest of vocatives in "a", "lor", "i",
> "e" was rediscovered, or how?
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