0 the form of a noun, pronoun, or adjective that is used in some languages when you are talking to someone or something:
In Et tu, Brute, the last word is not the English word brute but the vocative case of Latin Brutus.
He was the only living person whom she had ever heard using the vocative case.
We respond to God with the vocative as we respond to each other.
For this purpose utterances starting with vocatives such as Mommy, and negatives such as No, were ignored if they had been transcribed with the vocative comma.
Yuan's eyes flickered at the vocative title "sei-sen" - "sword bearer".
The critic borrows a term from classical grammar and calls it Whitman's " vocative technique."
This paper is meant to be a step towards the provision of such guidelines, by a systematic examination of the way in which referential and vocative usages are related.
On the other hand, syntactic position is right (they appear before nouns) and the context is also right (they are not used in the vocative, for instance).
