[Lingtyp] Name this category

[Siva Kalyan]

Some Dravidian languages also have allocutive markers (though I've never seen them described as such). Telugu has at least =rā (informal) and -aṇḍi (respectful); Tamil has at least the following:
=ḍā (informal masculine)
=ḍī (informal feminine)
=pā (intimate masculine)
=mā (intimate feminine)
=kā (intimate elder sister)
-ṅga(ḷ) (respectful)
The "intimate" allocutive particles (my terminology) are historically contractions of kin terms (appā 'father', ammā 'mother', akkā 'elder sister'—other kin terms may also contract in this way, but I've only ever heard it with these three, the last one very rarely). Also, =mā and =pā don't exactly line up with female and male addressee, as =mā can also be used by a female speaker to a male addressee; also, =ḍā can be used when speaking to a child regardless of gender.

Siva

> On 22 Jan 2020, at 8:35 am, Vladimir Panov <panovmeister at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear Scott,
> 
> Françoise is right about the allocutive. There is a paper by Anton Antonov i which this category is treated typologically:
> 
> Antonov, Anton. 2015. Verbal allocutivity in a crosslinguistic perspective. Linguistic Typology 19(1). 55–85.
> 
> Best,
> Vladimir
> 
> вт, 21 янв. 2020 г. в 12:18, Scott Delancey <delancey at uoregon.edu <mailto:delancey at uoregon.edu>>:
> Bodo (Tibeto-Burman, NE India) has a set of particles, two used by men and two by women, which indicate that the conversation is friendly and informal. Reminiscent of Thai krap and khaa, but with the opposite sense. Does anyone know if anyone has encountered such a category and given it a label? I need to decide what to call these, and would just as soon not make up a term if someone has already done it.
> 
> Scott DeLancey
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