VOKATIV I GRAMATIKA TUĐEG GOVORA
VOCATIVE AND GRAMMAR OF OTHER'S SPEECH

Summary/Abstract: This paper deals with syntactic status of vocative (as well as vocative constructions). The analysis of vocative is approached from the communication aspect, accepting the view that the ‘addressing’ is outside (grammatical) analysis of the sentence and as such it cannot be ‘judged’ by grammatical (syntactic) categories. In the paper, we also try to interpret the connections between addressing (direct speech or ‘reported speech’) and other parts of structures using direct speech (writer’s speech) in the literary context (selected stories and a drama by S. Kulenović and a novel by M. Selimović). Syntactic analysis is followed by stylistic one.

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