Übersetzung für 'vocatives' von Englisch nach Deutsch

vocatives

Vokative {pl}

• In a recent significant judgment, Justice Devan Ramachandran has declared the use of disrespectful and abusive words and vocatives by Police against citizens to be “relics of the colonial subjugatory tactics” and hence unconstitutional.
• The use of polite vocatives are rare in daily life and even rarer in texts.
• Vocative forms are given in parentheses after the nominative, as the only pronominal vocatives that are used are the third person ones, which only occur in compounds.
• The same is true of vocatives, which would be deaccented unless they appeared sentence-initially.
• In English, vocatives and mass nouns are felicitous [...] in any position in which they semantically make sense.

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