Contents -- Editorial Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations in Glosses -- Chapter One A Formal Twist for the Same Old Story -- 1. Bringing Vocatives to Syntax -- 2. Generative Grammar: A Framework for Vocatives -- 3. Vocative Case and Vocative Phrase -- 3.1. Vocative Phrase ≠ Vocative Case -- 3.2. Direct Address or Exclamation -- 4. What We Do in This Book -- 5. Lessons from the Past -- 6. Roadmap for This Book -- Chapter Two Back to the (Theoretical) Drawing Board: Was Ross Right After All? -- 1. The Semantics Angle -- 2. The Drawing Board -- 3. Was Ross Right After All? -- 4. Pros and Cons -- 4.1. Speas & Tenny (2003) -- 4.2. Sigurðsson (2004) -- 4.3. Miyagawa (2010, 2012) -- 5. The Syntactic Angle -- Chapter Three The Core of the Matter: Identifying and Interacting with the Addressee -- 1. The Components of Vocative Phrases -- 1.1. Variation in Vocative Phrases -- 1.2. Vocative Particles: The Genuine Morphemes -- 1.3. Vocative Particles: Grammaticalized Items -- 2. Functional Features -- 2.1. The Inter-Personal [i-p] Feature -- 2.2. The [2nd person] Feature -- 3. Particles or Articles -- 3.1. Obligatory Vocative Particles are the Counterpart of Articles -- 3.2. The Idiosyncracies of the Article and the DP/NP Problem -- 4. The Configuration of the Vocative Phrase -- 4.1. The Relation between Vocative Particles and Vocative Nouns -- 4.2. VocP: Configuration and Variations -- Chapter Four The System Behind the Noise -- 1. Preliminaries -- 1.1. What We Do in This Chapter -- 1.2. What We Do Not Do in This Chapter -- 1.3. Romanian Vocatives: A Short Description -- 2. VocP versus DP: The Configurations -- 2.1. The Regular DP -- 2.2. VocP > DP is More Than (3) -- 3. The Probes in Vocº -- 3.1. DP to Spec, VocP -- 3.2. N-to-D-to-Voc -- 3.3. N-to-Voc -- 3.4. AP to Spec, VocP -- 3.5. Direct Merge-Call Nouns -- 3.6. Reversed Vocatives.

3.7. Summary -- 4. Cross-Linguistic Variation -- 4.1. Languages with Enclitic Articles -- 4.2. Languages with Pre-Nominal Articles -- 4.3. Languages without Articles -- 4.4. Chapter Conclusions -- Chapter Five The Speech Act Connection: Particles of Direct Address -- 1. Particles with Pragmatic Function -- 2. Romanian hai -- 2.1. Morpho-Syntactic Properties -- 2.2. A Verbal Treatment -- 2.3. A Speech Act Treatment -- 3. Other Particles of Address in Romanian -- 3.1. Injunctives -- 3.2. Ostensives -- 3.3. Cross-Linguistic Confirmation: Greek -- 3.4. Conclusion -- 4. Co-Occurrence and Variation in Location -- 4.1. Single Particle-Clause Final -- 4.2. Co-Occurrence -- 4.3. Cross-Linguistic Variation: West Flemish -- 5. Conclusions on Particles of Direct Address -- Chapter Six The Vocative and the Clause -- 1. A Main Clause Phenomenon -- 2. Speech Acts and Vocatives -- 2.1. Evidence for VocP as an Indirect Object (in Spec, SAhP) -- 2.2. Argumental and Non-Argumental Positions in sahP > SAhP -- 3. Cross-Linguistic Variation: West Flemish -- 3.1. Single Particle -- 3.2. Independent Particle Sequence -- 4. Previous Analyses -- 4.1. Adjuncts -- 4.2. Appositions -- 5. Calls -- 6. Chapter Conclusions -- 7. Appendix: The Mapping of the Speaker p-role -- 7.1. Vocatives as Exclamations -- 7.2. Speaker-Oriented Particles -- 7.3. Morphemes for the [Speaker] Feature -- Chapter Seven Ramifications-The Imperative -- 1. The Theory: The Addressee and the Imperative -- 2. The Mapping of the Addressee -- 2.1. Allocutive Agreement -- 2.2. Imperatives -- 3. The Subject of Imperatives -- 3.1. VocP Meets V -- 3.2. VocP and the Subject of Imperatives -- 4. Summary -- Chapter Eight Taking Stock -- References -- Index.