Editing Vocative case (section)

=====New vocative=====
In modern colloquial Russian, [[given names]] and a small family of terms often take a special "shortened" form that some linguists consider to be a re-emerging vocative case.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Parrott |first1=Lilli |title=Vocatives and Other Direct Address Forms: A Contrastive Study |journal=Oslo Studies in Language |date=2010 |volume=2 |issue=1 |doi=10.5617/osla.68|doi-access=free}}</ref> It is used only for given names and nouns that end in {{lang|ru|-a|italic=no}} and {{lang|ru|-я|italic=no}}, which are sometimes dropped in the vocative form: "{{lang|ru|Лен, где ты?|italic=no}}" ("Lena, where are you?"). It is basically equivalent to "{{lang|ru|Лена, где ты?|italic=no}}" but suggests a positive personal and emotional bond between the speaker and the person being addressed. Names that end in {{lang|ru|-я|italic=no}} then acquire a [[soft sign]]: "{{lang|ru|Оль!|italic=no}}" = "{{lang|ru|Оля!|italic=no}}" ("Olga!"). In addition to given names, the form is often used with words like "{{lang|ru|мама|italic=no}}" (mom) and "{{lang|ru|папа|italic=no}}" (dad), which would be respectively shortened to "{{lang|ru|мам|italic=no}}" and "{{lang|ru|пап|italic=no}}". The plural form is used with words such as "{{lang|ru|ребят|italic=no}}", "{{lang|ru|девчат|italic=no}}" (nom: "{{lang|ru|ребята|italic=no}}", "{{lang|ru|девчата|italic=no}}" guys, gals).<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Andersen |first1=Henning |title=The New Russian Vocative: Synchrony, Diachrony, Typology |journal=[[Scando-Slavica]] |date=2012 |volume=58 |issue=1 |pages=122–167 |doi=10.1080/00806765.2012.669918|s2cid=119842000 }}</ref>

Such usage differs from the historic vocative, which would be "{{lang|ru|Лено|italic=no}}" and is not related.