О морфологически маркированном вокативе в современном украинском и других славянских языках: литературная норма, речевая практика
On Morphologically Marked Vocative in Modern Ukrainian and other Slavic languages: literary Norm, Speech Practice

Summary/Abstract: The functioning of vocative in modern Ukrainian and other Slavic languages is high-lighted in the article. Vocative is considered as a morphologically marked form of the noun, which names the addressee of the speech. The article analyses the processes of displacement of vocative by nominative in Slavic languages, ways of compensating the loss of vocative in speech practice by substitution forms, the tendencies of rebirth and the peculiarities of the use of vocative forms in modern Slavic languages.It is concluded that the loss of inflective forms of vocative occurred on the Slavic language territory at about the same time but with different dynamics and its own peculiarities. The norm for the formation and use of forms of vocative in each of the modern Slavic languages covers different volume group of nouns, so in some cases, the address forms of nominative are exclusively used while addressing somebody. Vocative and nominative forms are allowed as variants.There is no morphological vocative in modern Russian, Slovak, Slovenian and Lower Sorbian languages. In the system of declination of nouns in Ukrainian, Czech, Polish, Serbian, Croatian languages vocative case exists. In the Bulgarian and Macedonian languages, which have lost the declination of names, it is accepted to speak about vocative form. The use of vocative forms is also codified in the new literary Slavic languages that were formed at the end of the 20th century – Bosnian and Montenegrin. The vocative form in the function of addressing is also used in Upper Sorbian language. Conclusions are made about the parallel use of the forms of vocative and nominative in the function of addressing in the modern Belarusian language, where the nominative form in the modern literary standard is basic, neutral, and the use of vocative is limited to artistic and everyday style. In the Ukrainian language during the six decades of the so-called „Soviet” period, during the deliberate administrative intervention in the structure of its literary standard, vocative has suffered a loss of case status and returned to the system of cases of modern Ukrainian literary language.

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