Novels and plays written in English often introduce characters of other nationalities and give conversations in English that supposedly take place in other languages. A favourite way of indicating the latter is to throw in a few vocative expressions in...

The vocatives that are used in Christian prayers and invocations would merit a special study. In this book the use of words like ‘Father’ and ‘Queen’, addressed in prayers to God and the Virgin Mary, has not been discussed in...

// n. or adj. 1. A noun phrase used for direct address, such as Lisa in Would you give me a hand, Lisa? 2. A morphologically distinctive case form occurring in some languages and typically serving this function, such as Latin amice, vocative of amicus...

Morphological case in Indo-European languages which serves to mark the person addressed by the speaker, e.g. Rum. Maria (nom.) vs Mario (voc.). In most modern IndoEuropean languages, the nominative case has replaced the vocative case for this function....

The vocative case is the case used for a noun identifying the person (animal, object, etc.) being addressed and/or occasionally the determiners of that noun. A vocative expression is an expression of direct address, wherein the identity of the party...