[Lingtyp] Vocative markers expressing distance

[Harold Koch]

Hi Alice
For Kaytetye, where all words end in /e/ = schwa, I analyse the two so-called distortions as:
-aye address = vocative ‘hey you!’
-awe exclamative ‘hey, its X!’
Harold Koch

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Subject: [Lingtyp] Vocative markers expressing distance

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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