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Comparative construction morphology of diminutive forms in English and Urdu
Cogent Arts and Humanities, 2023 This research paper investigates the function of diminutive morphology in English and Urdu languages with a focus on production, similarities, and differences in inflectional bound morphemes in the noun and adjective categories, and studies the usage ...
Rabia Batool, Tahir Saleem
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The Morphopragmatics of the Diminutive Morpheme (-ba/-wa) in Akan
Lexis. Journal in English Lexicology, 2011 The present paper is concerned with the diminutive morpheme -wa/-ba in Akan. It examines the form, the origin and the various meanings associated with diminutive forms in the language.
Clement K. I. Appah +1 more
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Traducción del diminutivo español al árabe: retos y propuestas Estudio aplicado a la traducción árabe de Los cachorros y La colmena [PDF]
Transcultural Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2022 The diminutive is a linguistic phenomenon that exists in both Spanish and Arabic to add notional or expressive meanings to the word to which it is added. Given its frequent use in the Spanish language, whether in everyday conversation or in written texts;
Doaa Mohammad
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Diminutive epithets of animals in folklore
Vilnius University Open Series, 2022 This paper deals with derivational and semantic problems of diminutive epithets of animals. Such words are usually used in Lithuanian folk songs for domestic or wild animals, first of all, for a horse and a hare.
Birutė Jasiūnaitė
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Realization of traditional images of comparative tropes with diminutive dendronyms in the Russian poetry of the 19–21st centuries [PDF]
Известия Саратовского университета. Новая серия: Серия Филология, Журналистика, 2023 Russian poetry of the 19–21st centuries, from the perspective of the relationship of ‘cultural-stereotypical (traditional) – author’s individual’.
Sokolova, Marina G.
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Linguistica Brunensia, 2013 The article is a survey of Lithuanian derivative suffixes used for formation of diminutives. The individual suffixes are described with respect to how often are they used, their precise meaning or whether they are used for formation of another words ...
Tereza Kabeláčová
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The productivity of Dutch diminutives [PDF]
Linguistics in the Netherlands, 2021 Abstract This study reports on an investigation of the productivity of the Dutch diminutive paradigm, which gives rise to five suffixal allomorphs, against the background of Yang’s (2016) Tolerance Principle. It shows how, by studying the frequency of the allomorphs and the environments in which they occur, we can use the Tolerance ...
van Tuijl, Rosita, Coopmans, Peter
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De variatie van de Nederlandse diminutieve allomorfie: een empirische benadering
Neerlandica Wratislaviensia, 2023 This article deals with the variation of diminutive forms in contemporary standard Dutch. Various aspects of the Dutch diminutive are well-documented in the literature.
Borbála Gőcze
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An atypical differentiation: Vaslui vs Vasluieț [PDF]
Diacronia, 2018 This research aims at offering an explanation to a toponymic microstructure, analysing to what extent this can be classified in a type already discussed in some works of specialty under the name of hydronymic differentiation.
Vlad Cojocaru
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Cross-Linguistic Comparison of Screen Translations of Names in Hayao Miyazaki’s Animated Films
Вопросы ономастики, 2021 This article discusses the screen translation, into English and Chinese, of some of the names in Hayao Miyazaki’s animated films. In particular, in drawing onomastic examples from Miyazaki’s six animated fantasies, this study provides insights into the ...
Lindsey N. Chen
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