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Mike S., On 16/09/2012 06:20:
For the vocative, I am just curious why simply "ca", or maybe a new particle "co" which is available, couldn't do the job in cooperation with other parts of the syntax. I don't think we need the ability to bind arbitrary variables to anything referring to "you/me"; that's what "e'e/a'a" is reserved for. (As a side note, how exactly does "ca" differ from "ci"?) ca [le'e rslfe'e] me'e ndi VOC you are And hereby, you are And ca [la'a mslfa'a] ma'a mke VOC I am Mike. hereby, I am Mike. If that's not good enough,
It has the wrong meaning. It would mean something like "Hey presto, you are now Mike" or "I hereby pronounce you Pope Mike the thirteenth".
I would guess "co" = "I hereby make the [possibly new] identification such that" would work.
How? What are the rules for it?
I think the vocative is worth this short form. A lot of languages get by with null.
I don't see any reason to lump all different sorts of vocative into one. --And.