Editing Vocative case (section)

====Norwegian====
Nouns in [[Norwegian language|Norwegian]] are not inflected for the vocative case, but adjectives qualifying those nouns are; adjectival [[adjunct (linguistics)|adjuncts]] [[grammatical modifier|modifying]] vocative nouns are inflected for the [[definite]] (see: [[Norwegian language#Adjectives]]).<ref name=Halmøy>{{cite book |last=Halmøy |first=Madeleine |year=2016| title=The Norwegian Nominal System: a Neo-Saussurean Perspective |publisher=Walter de Gruyter GmbH |isbn=978-3-11-033963-5 |doi=10.1515/9783110363425 }}</ref>{{rp|223–224}} The definite and plural inflections are in most cases identical, so it is more easily observable with adjectives that inflect for plural and definite differently, e.g. {{lang|no|[[wikt:liten#Norwegian Bokmål|liten]]}} being {{lang|no|lille}} when definite, but {{lang|no|små}} when plural, an instance of [[suppletion]].<ref name=Halmøy />{{rp|116}}
{| class="wikitable"
!Non-vocative
!Vocative
!English translation
|-
|{{lang|no|kjær venn}}
|{{lang|no|kjær'''e''' venn}}
|dear friend
|-
|{{lang|no|vis mann}}
|{{lang|no|vis'''e''' mann}}
|wise man
|-
|{{lang|no|liten katt}}
|{{lang|no|'''lille''' katt}}
|little cat
|}

In several Norwegian dialects, north of an [[isogloss]] running from [[Oslo]] to [[Bergen]], [[name]]s in [[argument (linguistics)|argument]] position are associated with [[proprial articles]], e.g. gendered [[pronoun]]s such as {{lang|no|han}} {{gloss|he}} or {{lang|no|hun}} {{gloss|she}}, which either precede or follow the noun in question.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Johannesen |first1=Janne Bondi |last2=Garbacz |first2=Piotr| title=Proprial articles |journal=Nordic Atlas of Language Structures |year=2014 |volume=1 |pages=10–17 |doi=10.5617/nals.5362 |publisher=University of Oslo |url=https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/58250/Proprial+articles.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201129142717/https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/58250/Proprial+articles.pdf |archive-date=2020-11-29 |url-status=live }}</ref> This is not the case when in vocative constructions.<ref>{{cite web |last=Håberg |first=Live |title=Den preproprielle artikkelen i norsk: ei undersøking av namneartiklar i Kvæfjord, Gausdal og Voss |trans-title=The preproprial article in Norwegian: a study of nominal articles in Kværfjord, Gausdal and Voss |language=no |year=2010 |pages=26–28 |quote=Ved personnamn i vokativ [...] vil den preproprielle artikkelen ikkje bli brukt. |publisher=[[University of Oslo]] |url=https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/26729/haberg_master.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201129143134/https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/26729/haberg_master.pdf |archive-date=2020-11-29 |url-status=live |hdl=10852/26729 }}</ref>