Publications
Publication details [#20781]
Schooneveld, C.H. van. 1986. Is the vocative a case? In Johansen, Jorgen Dines and Harly Sonde, eds. Pragmatics and linguistics: Festschrift for Jacob L.Mey. Odense UP. pp. 179–186.
Annotation
The proposed answer to the question in the title is: yes, if one adopts an approach to case that is exclusively semantic.