0 the form of a noun, pronoun, or adjective that is used in some languages when you are talking to someone or something: --
There are seven cases (nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, instrumental, locative, and vocative) and two numbers (singular and plural).
It collocates in all cases with a vocative and is used emphatically to ask the addressee to pay attention to what is to follow.
They occur a lot (see column (k) in table 4), especially in vocatives, and seem to have become set expressions.
Specifically, she shows how interview participants deploy pronouns, vocatives, and pragmatic markers to this end.
In this speech community, the term has lost its former negative meaning, and is being used as a general vocative for an age peer.
These constitute a distinct class of ' nominal sentence ' expressing a particular mood, 'vocative'.
She uses vocatives and pragmatic markers from her corpus as further evidence to support this argument.
It is therefore important to investigate the relationship of vocative to referential usage within each individual dyad, not in general.
