"Vocative" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... kill the duckling implies that I am now speaking to the farmer, not merely about him; further, that he is not actually killing the bird, but is being ordered by me to do so. The subjective relation of the first sentence has become a vocative one, one of address, and the activity is conceived in terms of command, not of statement. We conclude, therefore, that if the farmer is to be merely talked about, the little the must go back into its place and the -s must not be removed. ...
— Language - An Introduction to the Study of Speech • Edward Sapir
... look out. Wah! ngarrarbang! Ah! poor fellow! Listen, winnangga! Any vocative ...
— The Wiradyuri and Other Languages of New South Wales • Robert Hamilton Mathews |
