From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 33484
Date: 2004-07-12
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From: "Miguel Carrasquer" <mcv@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2004 11:40 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Slavic *-os (*-om)
> That's interesting, because one of the arguments against the
> vocative theory is the lack of any parallel cases.
In colloquial Modern Polish, the vocative (in <-u>) of the hypocoristic
forms of male first nouns (Krzysiu, Grzechu, Jasiu, Stachu, etc.) frequently
functions as the nominative (Jasiu dzwonil/ do mnie wczoraj 'Jack phoned me
yesterday').
Piotr