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<p>Dear Sergey,</p>
<p>Dargwa languages (and probably some other Daghestanian languages)
have a similar phenomenon, but with a nuance: the self-reference
is in the genitive, thus the address is "mother's" (probably
implying "mother's beloved" or something similar) rather than
"mother". This works with all kinds of kinship terms and even
wider (e.g. an older non-relative is typically referred to as
uncle/aunt, and consequently, s/he may address the kid as
"uncle's"/"aunt's").</p>
<p>As a pure speculation (I haven't looked at the literature on the
topic), such constructions might be the origin of at least some of
these types of inversion.</p>
<p>Best,</p>
<p>Oleg<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">12.08.2020 22:34, Sergey Loesov пишет:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in
8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Dear
colleagues,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in
8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In
various cultures (those I know of happen to be mostly
Islamic) the form of address can be copied by the addressee.
Thus, when a
daughter addresses her mother as “Mummy”, the mother often
reciprocates, saying
to the daughter something like “yes, Mummy”, or “what, Mummy…”
(Same of course
with a son and his father.) </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in
8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In
particular, I came across this kind of exchange in my
fieldwork with Kurdish (Kurmanji) and some contemporary
Aramaic varieties in Upper
Mesopotamia and Syria, but this phenomenon is also current in
the Soqotri
language, an unwritten Semitic language spoken on the Socotra
Island in the
Indian Ocean, southeast of Yemen. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in
8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Are
we aware of explanations for this kind of usage? Are there
cross-language studies of this kind of facts?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in
8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Thank
you very much!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in
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