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Address inversion in southern Italian dialects Corr, Alice Address inversion Allocuzione inversa Grammar-discourse interface Vocatives Nominal syntax Grammatical reference Topological mapping theory Italo-Romance This article proposes a 'topological' reinterpretation of the extended nominal architecture in relation to southern Italo-Romance vocatives with and without allocuzione inversa ('address inversion', Renzi 1968), a phenomenon involving the 'inverse' lexical indexation of the speaker-addressee relationship (reg.It. Mangia, papà! 'Eat up, little one!', father to child). Topological Mapping Theory (Longobardi 2005; Martín & Hinzen 2014) posits a unified model of grammatical structure and nominal reference denotation in argumental constituents, where a hierarchy of referentiality (from predicativity to deixis) emerges through the expansion of the functional architecture. Contributing to a growing theoretical consensus favouring extra 'vocative' structure in the nominal left periphery, I argue that Italo-Romance vocatives with and without address inversion involve a part-whole expansion of structure, yielding a necessarily tripartite nominal architecture (VocP-DP-NP) in line with topological principles. The non-literal interpretation of N observed in the 'lexical flip' of address inversion vocatives is argued to be the surface manifestation of movement into VocP, a functional space whose internal articulation serves to construe the ostensive-deictic possibilities of an object-referring expression at the exophoric level. 2022 Article https://ddd.uab.cat/record/268835 urn:10.5565/rev/isogloss.168 urn:oai:ddd.uab.cat:268835 urn:oai:isogloss.revistes.uab.cat:article/168 urn:oai:raco.cat:article/10000002794 eng ; Isogloss ; Vol. 8 Núm. 4 (2022), p. 1-37 open access Aquest document està subjecte a una llicència d'ús Creative Commons. Es permet la reproducció total o parcial, la distribució, la comunicació pública de l'obra i la creació d'obres derivades, fins i tot amb finalitats comercials, sempre i quan es reconegui l'autoria de l'obra original. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ application/pdf