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MELZI, GIGLIANA, and KENDALL A. KING. "Spanish diminutives in mother–child conversations." Journal of Child Language 30, no. 2 (2003): 281–304. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305000903005567.

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The present study examined gender and age patterns of diminutive use in conversations between 32 Spanish-speaking Peruvian mothers and their three- and five-year-old children. Results confirm previous findings concerning both parents' greater use of diminutives with younger children and children's early acquisition of this complex aspect of morphology. However, findings do not support previous studies on gender differences in parental use of diminutives with young children. Results also revealed that mothers' and children's imitations of their interlocutors' diminutized words promoted their in
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Rose, Françoise. "The rise and fall of Mojeño diminutives through the centuries." Morphology and emotions across the world's languages 42, no. 1 (2018): 146–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sl.00006.ros.

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Abstract This paper investigates the diachrony of diminutives in Mojeño across four centuries. First, it shows that the three Mojeño diminutives have two lexical sources: ‘child’ and ‘seed’. This constitutes a counterexample to Jurafsky’s (1996) theory concerning the universal source of diminutives. Second, the paper investigates the grammaticalization process of diminutives and their further distributional and functional changes. It shows that the extension of the distribution onto verbs and grammatical parts of speech correlates with the gain of emotional connotations. It describes the evolu
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Tsybenova, Ch S. "MEANS OF EMOTIVITY EXPRESSION IN THE TUVAN LANGUAGE (ON THE EXAMPLE OF DIMINUTIVES)." Bulletin of Udmurt University. Series History and Philology 30, no. 5 (2020): 813–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.35634/2412-9534-2020-30-5-813-819.

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The article is devoted to the specifics of the emotional aspect in language. The author considers diminutives of the Tuvan language as linguistic means having emotional expression. The research material shows that diminutives, except their main meaning, can transmit different emotional and expressive significations. The primary way of diminutive word formation in the Tuvan language is an affixation. Diminutives formed with the help of dimensional adjectives and their combinations also have an emotional meaning. It is noted that in semantics of diminutives the positive emotional signification i
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al-Ghazalli, Mehdi F. "Diminutives in Arabic-to-English Translation." Babel. Revue internationale de la traduction / International Journal of Translation 58, no. 4 (2012): 395–407. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/babel.58.4.02gha.

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Diminutives serve a variety of semantic functions such as preference, satire, affection, endearment etc. The present study endeavours to highlight similarities and differences between both languages and the affect they have on how diminutives are translated from Arabic to English. It is hypothesized that the use of noun phrases preceded by adjectives could be more recurrent than those preceded by quantifiers in rendering diminutives from Arabic into English. Two theoretical surveys of diminutives in both languages were introduced and professional translators were handed a literary text to rend
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Sicherl, Eva. "Slovene Nominal Diminutives and their English Equivalents: A Comparison." ELOPE: English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries 9, no. 2 (2012): 53–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/elope.9.2.53-63.

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A contrastive analysis of nominal diminutives in Slovene and English clearly shows that diminutive formation and use of diminutives in Slovene is tied to the morphological characteristics of nouns and, consequently, their morphological–lexemic features, whereas the focus of diminutive formation and use in English remains bound to the syntactic use, or rather, the respective syntactico–semantic use of a given lexeme. In all languages, diminutiveness is a basic meaning– forming element, which can, however, be realized predominantly morphologically, as is the case in Slovene, or predominantly syn
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Sicherl, Eva. "A comparison of diminutive expressions in English and Slovene as exemplified by Roald Dahl’s Matilda." Languages in Contrast 18, no. 2 (2017): 283–306. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lic.15016.sic.

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Abstract The article presents and compares ways of expressing diminution in English and Slovene nouns, verbs and adjectives with the aim of testing a hypothesis suggesting that Slovene uses diminutive forms more frequently than English. Depending on language typology, diminutiveness can be realized predominantly word-formationally or predominantly analytically. The hypothesis is tested against an analysis of diminutive forms used in Dahl’s Matilda and its Slovene translation, showing that Slovene indeed prefers to use diminutives more frequently than English. A tendency can be established for
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Sicherl, Eva, and Andreja Žele. "Nominal diminutives in Slovene and English." Linguistica 51, no. 1 (2011): 135–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/linguistica.51.1.135-142.

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This contrastive treatment of diminutives in Slovene and English aims to comment on the productivity of diminutive formations in both languages; in Slovene diminutives are particularly productive also in the field of terminology. Diminutiveness can be expressed in both languages in different ways: in Slovene lexemic word-formation is prevalent, while in English the same content is usually expressed syntactically. However, a combination of both is possible as well, as for example in hišica - majhna hiša - majhna hiška. A dual nature of diminutiveness can also be detected in graded cases like hi
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šEVA, NADA, VERA KEMPE, PATRICIA J. BROOKS, NATALIJA MIRONOVA, ANGELINA PERSHUKOVA, and OLGA FEDOROVA. "Crosslinguistic evidence for the diminutive advantage: gender agreement in Russian and Serbian children." Journal of Child Language 34, no. 1 (2007): 111–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305000906007720.

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Our previous research showed that Russian children commit fewer gender-agreement errors with diminutive nouns than with their simplex counterparts. Experiment 1 replicates this finding with Russian children (N=24, mean 3;7, range 2;10–4;6). Gender agreement was recorded from adjective usage as children described animal pictures given just their names, varying in derivational status (diminutive/simplex), novelty, and gender. Experiment 2 extends the gender-agreement elicitation methodology developed for Russian to Serbian, a language with similar morphosyntactic structure but considerably fewer
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Ruda, N. "The Syntactic Means of Smallness NotionRepresentation in Ukrainian, English and Latin Languages." Studia Linguistica, no. 12 (2018): 111–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/studling2018.12.111-123.

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In the article the structure, semantics and functions of syntactic means of the smallness notion representation in Ukrainian, English and Latin languages are compared and analyzed. Common and particular for each language semantic-functional characteristics of analytical diminutive units are identified. The ability of syntactic means to express the full range of meanings associated with the notion of smallness is highlighted. The category of smallness (diminutiveness, diminution) is postulated in the article as a general gnoseological-linguistic category. The category of smallness usually denot
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Nicolova, Ruselina. "The derivation of diminutives from abstract noun bases in Bulgarian." Juznoslovenski filolog, no. 69 (2013): 149–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/jfi1369149n.

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The paper reviews the formal and semantic characteristics of the formation of diminutives in Bulgarian, where the process affects nouns, adjectives, numerals, adverbs, verbs and pronouns. The derivation of diminutives from abstract nouns is analyzed on the basis of material excerpted from blogs and forums in the Bulgarian Google, in which significant activation of the process in the language practices of young speakers is observed. The factors which facilitate or constrain the derivation of diminutives from abstract nouns are studied, as well as the semantic interaction between diminutive suff
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Montrul, Silvina, Israel de la Fuente, Justin Davidson, and Rebecca Foote. "The role of experience in the acquisition and production of diminutives and gender in Spanish: Evidence from L2 learners and heritage speakers." Second Language Research 29, no. 1 (2013): 87–118. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0267658312458268.

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This study examined whether type of early language experience provides advantages to heritage speakers over second language (L2) learners with morphology, and investigated knowledge of gender agreement and its interaction with diminutive formation. Diminutives are a hallmark of Child Directed Speech in early language development and a highly productive morphological mechanism that facilitates the acquisition of declensional noun endings in many languages (Savickienė and Dressler, 2007). In Spanish, diminutives regularize gender marking in nouns with a non-canonical ending. Twenty-four Spanish
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Nikolina, N. A. "Diminutive Functioning in Modern Russian Speech." Russian language at school 81, no. 5 (2020): 49–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.30515/0131-6141-2020-81-5-49-54.

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The article discusses the features of diminutives in modern Russian speech. The focus is on the use of expressive diminutives, mainly nouns. The main areas of the use of derivatives with suffixes of subjective assessment in Russian speech at the turn of the 21th century are distinguished: unceremonious treatment, communication with children, the gastronomic sphere and consumer service situations. The evaluative ambivalence of expressive diminutives and an increase in the number of contexts involving these derivative words to express irony are stated. A number of trends in the use of expressive
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KEMPE, VERA, PATRICIA J. BROOKS, NATALIJA MIRONOVA, and OLGA FEDOROVA. "Diminutivization supports gender acquisition in Russian children." Journal of Child Language 30, no. 2 (2003): 471–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305000903005580.

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Gender agreement elicitation was used with Russian children to examine how diminutives common in Russian child-directed speech affect gender learning. Forty-six children (2;9–4;8) were shown pictures of familiar and of novel animals and asked to describe them after hearing their names, which all contained regular morphophonological cues to masculine or feminine gender. Half were presented as simplex (e.g. jozh ‘porcupine’) and half as diminutive forms (e.g. jozhik ‘porcupine-DIM’). Children produced fewer agreement errors for diminutive than for simplex nouns, indicating that the regularizing
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Malaver, Irania, and Florentino Paredes García. "Convergences and divergences inthe use of the diminutive in Medellin, Caracas and Madrid." Sociolinguistic patterns and processes of convergence and divergence in Spanish 17, no. 2 (2020): 317–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sic.00061.mal.

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Abstract This article analyzes the differences and coincidences in the uses of the diminutive found in three varieties of Spanish. Based on the classification of the pragmatic functions of the diminutive by Reynoso (2003), and the analysis of 5355 cases of non-lexicalized diminutives, it may be observed that the three varieties converge greatly in the production of the diminutive forms of -ito. There is some divergence in the variety of lexical bases that support the diminutive since the people of Madrid use (and listen to) more diminutives than Americans, but they use (and listen to) them in
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Appiah Amfo, Nana Aba, and Clement Kwamina Insaidoo Appah. "Lexicalization of Akan Diminutives:." Linguistik Online 94, no. 1 (2019): 3–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.13092/lo.94.5431.

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This paper examines transparent and non-transparent diminutive forms in Akan and the range of meanings associated with each group, as presented in Appah/Amfo (2011). It takes the discussion of Akan diminutives a step further by showing that some of the meanings communicated by transparent diminutive forms are dependent on the context, including the semantic properties of the base to which the diminutive morpheme is attached. In addition, it demonstrates that even though the non-transparent diminutive forms communicate diminu-tive meanings and contain what appears to be the Akan diminutive morp
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Taine-Cheikh, Catherine. "Expressiveness and evaluation in Arabic." Morphology and emotions across the world's languages 42, no. 1 (2018): 81–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sl.00004.tai.

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Abstract Old Arabic had many expressive derived forms: firstly, the forms with radical repetition, consonant reduplication and/or vowel lengthening; secondly, the forms with prefixes, suffixes or infixes. Most of these formatives survived in the Arabic dialects, but Arabic scholars generally focus on diminutive noun forms (nominal and adjectival forms) named taṣġīr in Arabic. This article presents the rules of formation of the diminutive in the Ḥassāniyya Arabic dialect, in which this derivation applies to the whole lexicon, including verbal forms. The derivational morphology of the diminutive
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Nikitina, Tatiana. "Diminutives derived from terms for children: Comparative evidence from Southeastern Mande." Linguistics 57, no. 1 (2019): 1–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ling-2018-0029.

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Abstract The study addresses the relationship between diachronic change and synchronic polysemy based on the use of diminutives in four closely related Southeastern Mande languages. It explores the synchronic patterns of use of cognate diminutive markers deriving from the word ‘child’, and accounts for differences between the languages in terms of a Radial Category network, which is designed to capture in one representation both mechanisms of diachronic change and mechanisms of regular meaning extension. The study argues that the same approach can be used to account for the ways diminutive mar
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Фуфаева, И. В. "DIMINUTIVES AS A MEANS OF POLITENESS IN RUSSIAN." Russkii iazyk za rubezhom, no. 2(285) (April 29, 2021): 32–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.37632/pi.2021.285.2.005.

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В статье подробно рассматривается роль диминутивов как средства вежливости в русском языке. Диминутивы, не выражающие значения малого размера, характерны для русского языка и выполняют в нем ряд функций. Одной из таких функций является маркирование вежливости. Исторически диминутивы играли роль этикетного средства в формальном деловом языке Московской Руси, но за исключением этой эпохи диминутивы служат средством вежливости только в неформальном стиле. Вежливые диминутивы востребованы в различных дискурсах и ситуациях: просьбы, угощения, для манифестации скромности при упоминании о своем произ
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Harris, James. "The OCP, Prosodic Morphology and Sonoran Spanish diminutives: a reply to Crowhurst." Phonology 11, no. 1 (1994): 179–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0952675700001883.

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Megan Crowhurst's ‘Diminutives and augmentatives in Mexican Spanish: a prosodic analysis’ (1992, henceforth CRO) takes a fresh look at the thorny problem of explicating the distribution of the allomorphs -itV and -(e)citV of the Spanish diminutive suffix. CRO has conspicuous virtues. Among them is the limitation of data to a single dialect, namely Sonoran, of northern Mexico. This narrow focus is insurance against inadvertently mixing incompatible data, a special risk posed by the considerable dialect variability of productive diminutivisation. At the same time, CRO broadens its data base by t
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Ponsonnet, Maïa. "A preliminary typology of emotional connotations in morphological diminutives and augmentatives." Morphology and emotions across the world's languages 42, no. 1 (2018): 17–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sl.00002.pon.

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Abstract This article presents a preliminary typology of emotional connotations in evaluative morphology, starting with diminutives and augmentatives. I inventory the emotional meanings and connotations found in a sample of nineteen languages for diminutives, and nine languages plus a few additional regional studies for augmentatives. Given the small size of the samples, this typology can only remain preliminary, but it does highlight a number of points. Across languages and continents, diminutives can express positive emotions such as compassion, love and admiration, as well as negative emoti
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Wolfe, Brendan. "Greek Diminutives in Gothic." Transactions of the Philological Society 117, no. 2 (2019): 256–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-968x.12156.

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Szymczak-Rozlach, Mariola. "Słowackie Deminutywa W Funkcji Eufemizującej." Journal of Linguistics/Jazykovedný casopis 69, no. 3 (2018): 589–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2019-0035.

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Abstract The subject of the study is a group of selected expressive lexical units with positive connotation, euphemisms and euphemistic diminutives belonging to the category of amelioratives. These units function within a broadly understood expressive lexicon, used to express different emotions, including negative valorization. The author assumes that expressiveness is a very important element of interpersonal communication in terms of nomination and she finds the expressive function of the language as the key one. Among the euphemizing derivatives (quasi­diminutives) and diminutives, the auth
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Rebrus, Péter, and Péter Szigetvári. "Diminutives: Exceptions to Harmonic Uniformity." Catalan Journal of Linguistics 15 (November 9, 2016): 101. http://dx.doi.org/10.5565/rev/catjl.186.

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SAVICKIENĖ, INETA, VERA KEMPE, and PATRICIA J. BROOKS. "Acquisition of gender agreement in Lithuanian: Exploring the effect of diminutive usage in an elicited production task." Journal of Child Language 36, no. 3 (2009): 477–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305000908009100.

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ABSTRACTThis study examines Lithuanian children's acquisition of gender agreement using an elicited production task. Lithuanian is a richly inflected Baltic language, with two genders and seven cases. Younger (N=24, mean 3 ; 1, 2 ; 5–3 ; 8) and older (N=24, mean 6 ; 3, 5 ; 6–6 ; 9) children were shown pictures of animals and asked to describe them after hearing the animal's name. Animal names differed with respect to familiarity (novel vs. familiar), derivational status (diminutive vs. simplex) and gender (masculine vs. feminine). Analyses of gender-agreement errors based on adjective and pron
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Gregová, Renáta, Lívia Körtvélyessy, and Július Zimmermann. "Phonetic iconicity in the evaluative morphology of a sample of Indo-European, Niger-Congo and Austronesian languages." Word Structure 3, no. 2 (2010): 156–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/word.2010.0003.

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Universals Archive (Universal #1926) indicates a universal tendency for sound symbolism in reference to the expression of diminutives and augmentatives. The research ( Štekauer et al. 2009 ) carried out on European languages has not proved the tendency at all. Therefore, our research was extended to cover three language families – Indo-European, Niger-Congo and Austronesian. A three-step analysis examining different aspects of phonetic symbolism was carried out on a core vocabulary of 35 lexical items. A research sample was selected out of 60 languages. The evaluative markers were analyzed acc
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Koleva, Radostina. "INTERACTION BETWEEN DIMINUTIVITY AND GENDER OF THE NOUNS DENOTING PROFESSIONS IN BULGARIAN." Ezikov Svyat volume 18 issue 2, ezs.swu.v18i2 (June 30, 2020): 47–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.37708/ezs.swu.bg.v18i2.6.

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The present paper examines some aspects of the interaction between diminutivity and gender of personal nouns (especially ones formed with the suffix -che) in contemporary Bulgarian (for the present, the augmentatives are not an object of our study). The author demonstrates the existence of a correlation between the semantics of neuter nouns and diminutives. It is emphasized that neuter nouns for professions or posts are not used regarding children because, as a rule, those professions or posts are only performed or occupied by adults. Aside from the semantics, stylistic features of diminutives
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Bayakhmetova, Aysulu Akhmetbekovna, and Zauresh Kalikhanovna Omarova. "Multi-aspect of the use of diminutives in the texts of art works." Bulletin of Toraighyrov University. Philology series, no. 2,2021 (June 1, 2021): 27–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.48081/heqk5677.

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Derivatives in the modern Russian language fulfill a certain functional and stylistic role and, as a rule, express emotional, expressive and evaluative meaning. Appellatives with diminutive formants in works of art are the means of characterizing a character and a message about the emotional state of the characters. This article examines the multifaceted nature of the use of diminutive formants in the texts of works of art. Works of fiction involve the search for a variety of means of expression and depiction. This leads to the creation of different stylistic contexts necessary to convey a par
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Gärtig-Bressan, Anne-Kathrin. "Aktionsverben im inter- und intralingualen Vergleich:." Linguistik Online 94, no. 1 (2019): 19–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.13092/lo.94.5432.

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This paper examines transparent and non-transparent diminutive forms in Akan and the range of meanings associated with each group, as presented in Appah/Amfo (2011). It takes the discussion of Akan diminutives a step further by showing that some of the meanings communicated by transparent diminutive forms are dependent on the context, including the semantic properties of the base to which the diminutive morpheme is attached. In addition, it demonstrates that even though the non-transparent diminutive forms communicate diminu-tive meanings and contain what appears to be the Akan diminutive morp
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Lameli, Alfred. "The replacement of diminutive suffixes in the New High German period." Journal of Historical Linguistics 8, no. 2 (2018): 273–316. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jhl.17014.lam.

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Abstract This article addresses the replacement of the diminutive form ‑lein by ‑chen as the leading suffix in written German during the New High German period. A large sample of diminutives from 1600–1900, retrieved from the DTA corpus, forms the basis of this investigation. The study aims to provide a detailed periodization of the replacement process with regard to both types and tokens. By using methods from computational linguistics and time series analysis, clear patterns of language variation and change are demonstrated; these patterns are to some extent interrelated and staggered throug
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Vanhove, Martine, and Mohamed-Tahir Hamid Ahmed. "Diminutives and augmentatives in Beja (North-Cushitic)." Morphology and emotions across the world's languages 42, no. 1 (2018): 51–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sl.00003.van.

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Abstract The evaluative morphology of Beja consists of four devices: gender shift to feminine on nouns, and sound change (r>l) on nouns, verbs and adjectives form the diminutives. A suffix -loːj on adjectives, and -l on Manner converbs, form the augmentatives. The analysis focuses on the evaluative, emotional and other pragmatic values associated with these morphemes, size, endearment, praise, romantic love, contempt, politeness and eloquence. When relevant, the links to the general mechanism of semantic change, lambda-abstraction-specification proposed by Jurafsky (1996), is discussed. Thi
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Lahrouchi, Mohamed, and Rachid Ridouane. "On diminutives and plurals in Moroccan Arabic." Morphology 26, no. 3-4 (2016): 453–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11525-016-9290-7.

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Audring, Jenny, Geert Booij, and Ray Jackendoff. "Menscheln, kibbelen, sparkle." Linguistics in the Netherlands 34 (November 23, 2017): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/avt.34.01aud.

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Abstract German, Dutch and English have surprisingly large sets of verbal diminutives: verbs ending in -el/-le and carrying an attenuative and/or iterative meaning. These verbs exhibit particular properties that make them interesting for morphological theory. Focussing on Dutch data, this paper sketches the challenges that arise with respect to structure, productivity and meaning, and proposes a constructionist account that allows for a better understanding of the issues. The central notion is the schema, a generalization over the structure of complex words. In contrast to rules, whose main fu
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Badarneh, Muhammad A. "The pragmatics of diminutives in colloquial Jordanian Arabic." Journal of Pragmatics 42, no. 1 (2010): 153–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2009.05.004.

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Crowhurst, Megan J. "Diminutives and augmentatives in Mexican Spanish: a prosodic analysis." Phonology 9, no. 2 (1992): 221–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0952675700001597.

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This paper argues for a prosodic constraint on the formation of diminutive and augmentative forms in Mexican Spanish. Specifically, the stem preceding diminutive (dim) and augmentative (aug) suffixes in this dialect must comprise an absolute minimum of two syllables. When a stem melody cannot satisfy the two-syllable minimum, an epenthetic vowel (V) [e] surfaces at the right edge of the stem (e.g.panesito‘little bread’ ←pan). In the analysis proposed here, a disyllabic templatef[σ σ] is mapped to stems from left to right as part of dim/aug-formation. Whether or not a consonant (C)/s/ surfaces
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Wiercińska, Katarzyna. "Diminutief in de dagelijkse sociale interacties in Vlaanderen." Neerlandica Wratislaviensia 26 (May 18, 2017): 201–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/8060-0716.26.9.

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This paper, using a corpus of 10 contemporary Flemish films app. 83,000 words, aims to look at the qualitative and quantitative use of diminutives in everyday communication in Flanders. The first part of the study focuses on determining which functions they fulfill in a given context. The question is whether this set functions would only be specific to Flanders or whether it could be seen as a cul­tural script throughout the whole Dutch language area. The second part of the study is a comparative analysis of the qualitative and quantitative use of diminutives in Loft and Zot van A and their Du
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Ueda, Masako, Wolfgang U. Dressler, and Lavinia Merlini Barbaresi. "Morphopragmatics: Diminutives and Intensifiers in Italian, German, and Other Languages." Language 73, no. 1 (1997): 157. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/416599.

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Dabašinskienė, Ineta. "Gender Differences in Language Acquisition: A Case Study of Lithuanian Diminutives." Journal of Baltic Studies 43, no. 2 (2012): 177–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01629778.2012.674795.

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King, Kendall, and Gigliana Melzi. "Intimacy, Imitation and Language Learning: Spanish Diminutives in Mother-Child Conversation." First Language 24, no. 2 (2004): 241–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0142723704044139.

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Bocian, Konrad, Olga Bialobrzeska, and Michal Parzuchowski. "Assessing size and subjective value of objects with diminutive names." Polish Psychological Bulletin 48, no. 3 (2017): 423–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ppb-2017-0048.

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Abstract Numerous studies show that language (in its grammatical forms or morphology) can influence both perceptual judgments, as well as the mental categorization of objects in memory. Previous research showed that using diminutive names of objects resulted in being less satisfied with owning said objects and lowering their perceived value. In the present studies, to explore this phenomenon, we decided to investigate whether the influence of a diminutive on the reduction in the subjective value of an object is determined by the perceived size of the object, in accordance with the „bigger is b
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Zsemlyei, Borbála. "Lexicalized Diminutives in the Transylvanian Hungarian Historical Dictionary." Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica 10, no. 3 (2018): 179–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ausp-2018-0035.

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Abstract The analysis of nouns which take a -ka morpheme but their meaning has nothing to do with the idea of smallness, not even from a historical perspective, can be problematic, and that is why one is faced with the possibility that this formant (due to the influence of a foreign language) is simply a noun suffix and is in no connection with the diminutive – it is only its homonym. The present paper deals with those entry words of the Transylvanian Hungarian Historical Dictionary which have a diminutive suffix in their structure; however, the meaning of the derivative does not include the e
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Voeikova, Maria. "Structural functions of diminutives and their productivity in modern Russian." Voprosy Jazykoznanija, no. 5 (2020): 38. http://dx.doi.org/10.31857/0373-658x.2020.5.38-56.

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Burghini, Julia, and Javier Uría. "Los grados del diminutivo: una doctrina confusa en la gramática latina antigua." Emerita 86, no. 2 (2018): 327. http://dx.doi.org/10.3989/emerita.2018.06.1732.

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Desde Varrón a Prisciano, los gramáticos latinos se interesaron por la acumulación de los sufijos diminutivos (-ulus, -culus, etc.), relacionándola con frecuencia con los grados de comparación y, por ende, con un aumento de la función diminutiva. En las gramáticas latinas antiguas, el tratamiento de los diminutivos era heterogéneo: desde una perspectiva semántica se destacaba su cercanía a los grados de comparación –en tanto representan la disminución de la esencia de un nombre– y desde una formal se clasificaban como derivados –en tanto se derivan de nombres primitivos–. Aunque la mayoría de
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BOERSMA, Tiffany, Judith RISPENS, Fred WEERMAN, and Anne BAKER. "Acquiring diminutive allomorphs: taking item-specific characteristics into account." Journal of Child Language 46, no. 3 (2019): 567–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305000919000047.

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AbstractPhonological characteristics and frequencies of stems and allomorphs have been explored as possible factors causing differences in production accuracies between allomorphic forms. However, previous findings are not consistent and the relative contributions of these factors are unclear. This study investigated target and erroneous productions of the Dutch diminutive, which has five allomorphs with varying type frequencies and of which the selection depends on the phonological characteristics of the stems. Typically developing children (N = 115, 5;1–10;3) were tested on their production
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Bauer, Laurie. "Evaluative Morphology." Studies in Language 21, no. 3 (1997): 533–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sl.21.3.04bau.

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Various claims from the previous literature about the way in which evaluative morphology (particularly diminutives and augmentatives) operates are tested on a large sample of languages. Evaluative morphology is seen as being less morphologically marginal than has been implied in some of the recent literature, but nevertheless as showing some interesting cross-linguistic tendencies.
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Frank, Marina. "Das Augenblickchen und das Stückelchen." Linguistik Online 99, no. 6 (2019): 7–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.13092/lo.99.5961.

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This study deals with the diminutive suffixes -chen and -elchen in the Moselfranconian base dialects on both sides of the Luxo-German state border. It covers the entirety of the state of Luxembourg as well as the Moselfranconian dialects of German within the area of investigation of the Linguistic Atlas of the Central Rhine (MRhSA). The study examines the Wenker questionnaires from the end of the 19th century that were collected by Georg Wenker and John Meier as well as a second and third series of data in the form of Wenker questionnaires that were collected in the 1920s by Richard Huss and d
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Figueiredo de Alencar, Leonel, Bruno Cuconato, and Alexandre Rademaker. "MorphoBr: an open source large-coverage full-form lexicon for morphological analysis of Portuguese." Texto Livre: Linguagem e Tecnologia 11, no. 3 (2018): 1–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.17851/1983-3652.11.3.1-25.

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ABSTRACT: One of the prerequisites for many natural language processing technologies is the availability of large lexical resources. This paper reports on MorphoBr, an ongoing project aiming at building a comprehensive full-form lexicon for morphological analysis of Portuguese. A first version of the resource is already freely available online under an open source, free software license. MorphoBr combines analogous free resources, correcting several thousand errors and gaps, and systematically adding new entries. In comparison to the integrated resources, lexical entries in MorphoBr follow a m
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Chebochakova, I. M. "On the compatibility of the adjective kichizhek ‘small’ in Khakass." Languages and Folklore of Indigenous Peoples of Siberia, no. 40 (2020): 100–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.25205/2312-6337-2020-1-100-107.

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There is still a great interest in the functional side of language phenomena in modern linguistics. The semantics of language units is closely related to a specific speech situation. Therefore, it is necessary to analyze both the context and the inter-compatibility of lexemes in order to describe the specifics of their meanings. The article aims to describe the features of combining the adjective kichizhek ‘small’ with nouns, and this aspect has not been previously studied separately in the Khakass linguistics. The adjective under investigation refers to diminutive adjectives. Diminutives are
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Kotenyatkina, Irina B. "Lexical Peculiarities of the Modern Spanish Language of Guatemala." RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics 10, no. 3 (2019): 634–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2313-2299-2019-10-3-634-643.

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Despite the fact that Russian linguists are actively exploring the peculiarities of the implementation of language means in Latin American countries, the Spanish language of Guatemala has not yet been the object of analysis in terms of the variation of lexical units. This article examines the lexical units used in the Guatemalan national variety of the Spanish language through the prism of modern lexical semantics, using the current common approaches and methods of the linguistics discipline. The peculiarities of the Guatemalan national variety of the Spanish language are demonstrated, such as
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Dabašinskienė, Ineta. "The acquisition of compounds in Lithuanian." Baltic Linguistics 1 (December 31, 2010): 51–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.32798/bl.435.

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This study analyzes longitudinal data of two Lithuanian children, a boy and a girl, with the aim of investigating children’s ability to produce compounds. In contrast to such languages as German or English, Lithuanian does not show a marked preference for noun-compounding. It is not surprising, then that compounds in the analyzed child language data appear quite rarely, although in Lithuanian compounding is a productive pattern of word formation. The analysis of the data shows that compounds emerge quite early as pure imitations of adult utterances; however, even in later stages of language ac
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Schaffel Bremenkamp, Elizana, Kathy Rys, Andrew Nevins, and Gertjan Postma. "Zeeuws-Flemish in Brazil: multilingualism and language decay." Gragoatá 22, no. 42 (2017): 435–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.22409/gragoata.v22i42.33480.

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In this paper, we present the linguistic and cultural description of the Brazilian Zeeuws-Flemish population in Espírito Santo, which today has no more than 20 speakers. The Zeeuws-Flemish speakers, hundreds of whom left Zeeland in 1858-1862, have faced hardship and difficulty in adaptation and integration into Brazilian society ever since their arrival, with their language threatened not only by Brazilian Portuguese, but also by Brazilian Pomeranian, somewhat of a lingua franca among the Germanic Protestant community in the region. In this paper we present a sociolinguistic survey of the Braz
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