[lit-ideas] Re: vocative particles

Just wondered if you would include 'Hi' in your list of vocative wotsits -


Many years ago I knew an elderly lady from Northumberland, a farmers wife, 
who could maintain long conversations just by murmuring mm-hm with variant 
inflections at interludes during a conversation, an the occasional "uh-uh 
hinny!".  One came away convinced one had had a long and fruitful exchange 
with her and yet she never really said anything...I guess these are 
evocatives not vocatives...

Best

Ceri

PS lovely to see you back again Mirembe -

At 12:53 PM 29/01/2005, you wrote:

>Forgot to ask:
>
> > What troubles me about Mirembe's list of 'English' vocative particles is
>
>Why 'English' rather than just English, O Robert?
>
>MN
>
>
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