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Terms of Address in Slavic
An Overview
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This study surveys the address systems of the modern Slavic languages, encompassing both free address (vocative phrases) and bound address (pronominal and quasi-pronominal), with occasional reference to non-standard varieties. The analysis rests on a proposed ânaming templateâ â a fixed-order schema of element types (status, kinship, role, forename, patronymic, surname, etc.) â that governs the composition of address strings in both referential and vocative use. The template serves not only as a descriptive inventory but also as a predictive device, accounting for the admissibility, anomaly, and markedness of attested and unattested combinations. The diachronic dimension traces, among other things, the promotion of role terms to status terms, the rise and decline of elaborate bound-address systems (V-, P-, and O-address) under German, Polish, and inter-Slavic influence, and the effects of socialist-era language planning on address conventions.
Mikhail Oslon works at the Institute of the Polish Language (Cracow). His research topics include Balto-Slavic accentology and Romani linguistics. He is the author of Jazyk kotljarov-moldovaja. Grammatika kÄldÄrarskogo dialekta cyganskogo jazyka v russkojazyÄnom okruženii (Moscow, 2018).
Slavists, sociolinguists, and pragmatics specialists; typologists interested in address systems; students and researchers in Slavic linguistics. Relevant areas: comparative Slavic linguistics, sociolinguistics, historical pragmatics.