Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Vocative! -- The vocative in Georgian -- Vocative for nominative -- The vocative and its kin: marking function through prosody -- On the structure of vocatives -- Features and strategies: the internal syntax of vocative phrases -- Addressing changes in the Bulgarian vocative -- Du Idiot! Din idiot! Pseudo-vocative constructions and insults in German (and Swedish) -- Vocative and the grammar of calls -- Mexican güey - from vocative to discourse marker: a case of grammaticalization? -- The vocative case between system and asymmetry -- Vocatives as functional performance structures -- On the case of the vocative -- Language index -- Subject index