Vocative expression
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Vocative expression
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In linguistics, a vocative or vocative expression is a phrase used to identify the addressee of an utterance. The underlined phrases in each of the following English sentences are examples of vocatives: Syntactically, vocatives are noun phrases which are isolated from the structure of their containing sentence, not being a dependent of the verb. In some languages, vocatives are marked morphologically with a particular grammatical case, the vocative case. English lacks a vocative case, but sets v
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Phrase used to identify the addressee of an utterance
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2023-11-30T23:31:40Z
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