Abstract
This article investigates the internal syntax of evaluative vocative
expressions (e.g., You idiot!). This construction superficially consists of a second
person pronoun and an epithet noun. It turns out that this construction type has
different morphosyntactic manifestations across languages/dialects (abstractly:
youNOM idiot!; youACC/OBL idiot!; your idiot!). The paper aims at giving a uniform
account for
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