[Lingtyp] Vocative markers expressing distance

[Alice Gaby]

Dear all,

My student (Alan Ray) is looking for examples of vocative markers
(morphological or otherwise) that express a distance distinction. For
example, in Wik Mungkan (Pama-Nyungan, Australia), there are three vocative
suffixes distinguishing proximal (-ang), medial (-(e)ey), and distal
addressees (-(o)oy):

kaath-ang
mother-VOC.PRX
'hey mother!'

nint-al-ey
2sg-PVS-VOC.MED
'hey you!'

niy-al-ooy
2pl-PVS-VOC.DST
'hey you!'

We'd be grateful for any pointers towards similar and/or relevant data from
other languages. So far, the only language we are aware of with a clearly
morphological/lexical (two-way) distance distinction is Kugu Nganhcara. But
Alan has found differences in stress, length, pitch, volume and/or vowel
lengthening or “distortion” correlating with addressee distance in
languages such as Arrernte, Kaytetye, Anmatyer, Wirangu, Nyigina,
Nunggubuyu and Mangarayi (all from Australia). Alan's work focuses on
Aboriginal languages of Australia, but we would be very interested to see
analogous examples from elsewhere.

I'll post a summary of responses to the list.

Thanks in advance!
Alice

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