Brazil: Pet Vocatives In Southwestern Amazonia

Brazil: Pet Vocatives In Southwestern Amazonia Stefan Dienst, and David W. Fleck, 2009   Languages of several families of southwestern Amazonia have a set of vocative terms for calling tamed animals kept as pets. These vocatives are mostly unrelated to the referential nouns for the species and more likely than other words to be borrowed between unrelated languages.   Anthropological Linguistics; 51(3-4): 209 - 243

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