Scandinavian is known to have vocative phrases that contain a possessive second person pronoun and a noun, and possibly also one or more adjectives, as in the Norwegian example din lille fjott, which means ‘you little dork’ although din is formally identical to the possessive pronoun for second person singular. In this paper, I will show that possessive predicational vocatives, as I call them, involve a predication which is parallel to ordinary predicational structures where the noun is marked with an indefinite determiner, as du er en liten fjott ‘you are a little dork’. The two constructions are semantically similar and place identical restrictions on nouns. It can also be shown that the pronominal element that appears in the possessive predicational vocative is not actually possessive. On my analysis this pronoun is the combined spellout of a pronominal element that is the subject of the predication and an indefinite element in the predicate. On this point, my analysis is closely related to earlier analyses of the construction, but it goes against analyses that take the noun in the possessive predicational vocative to be the subject of the predication underlyingly.

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斯堪的纳维亚语所有格谓词呼唤

众所周知，斯堪的纳维亚语有包含所有格的第二人称代词和名词，可能还有一个或多个形容词的呼格短语，如挪威语的例子 din lille fjott，意思是“你这个小笨蛋”，尽管 din 在形式上与所有格相同第二人称单数的代词。在本文中，我将展示我所称的所有格谓词呼格涉及一个与普通谓语结构平行的谓语，其中名词用不定限定词标记，如 duer en liten fjott 'you are a little dork' . 这两种结构在语义上相似，并对名词施加相同的限制。还可以证明，所有格谓词呼格中出现的代词元素实际上并不是所有格。根据我的分析，这个代词是作为谓语主语的代词元素和谓语中的不定元素的组合拼写。在这一点上，我的分析与之前对结构的分析密切相关，但它与将所有格谓词呼格中的名词作为潜在谓语主语的分析背道而驰。