Diminutives across Languages, Theoretical Frameworks and Linguistic Domains /

Diminutives across Languages, Theoretical Frameworks and Linguistic Domains / / ed. by Stela Manova, Laura Grestenberger, Katharina Korecky-Kröll.

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This volume addresses a number of issues in current morphological theory from the point of view of diminutive formation, such as the role of phonology in diminutives and hypocoristics and consequently its place in the overall architecture of grammar, i.e. phonology-first versus syntax/morphology-fir...

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HerausgeberIn:
Grestenberger, Laura,
Korecky-Kröll, Katharina,
Manova, Stela,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2023]
2024
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 380
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VI, 421 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 1 Introduction: Diminutives across languages, theoretical frameworks and linguistic domains
  • Part I: Theoretical approaches to diminutive formation
  • 2 On a low and a high position for diminutive non-manual markers in Italian Sign Language
  • 3 Diminutive or singulative? The suffixes -in and -k in Russian
  • 4 Slavic diminutive morphology: An interplay of scope, templates and paradigms
  • 5 Diminutive formation in Spanish: Evidence for word morphology
  • 6 The syllable as the basis for word formation: Evidence from diminutives, hypocoristics and clippings in English, Dutch, Afrikaans, Swedish and French
  • Part II: Corpus-based and other empirical studies
  • 7 The Swedish suffix -is and its place within evaluative morphology
  • 8 Diminutives and number: Theoretical predictions and empirical evidence from German in Austria
  • 9 Diminutive verbs in the Austrian language area: Morphological and semantic challenges
  • 10 Challenges in analyzing Polish diminutives
  • 11 Diminutives among other -k(a) words in colloquial Russian: Frequency and suffix variation
  • Part III: Sociolinguistic, pragmatic and acquisitional studies
  • 12 Borrowed or inspired? Komi diminutive under Russian influence
  • 13 Acquisition of diminutives in Russian and Estonian from a typological perspective
  • 14 Morphological richness and priority of pragmatics over semantics in Italian, Arabic, German and English diminutives
  • 15 Diminutive variation in Austrian Standard German: A corpuslinguistic study
  • 16 Gender discrepancies and evaluative gender shift: A cross-linguistic study within Distributed Morphology
  • Index

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