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Towards a relevance-theoretic approach to the diminutive morpheme

Russian Journal of Linguistics, 2020
This paper intends to lay the foundations for a relevance-theoretic approach to the diminutive morpheme. In many languages, this morpheme is attached to nouns, adjectives, adverbs or verbs.
Manuel Padilla Cruz
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A Comparative Study of Diminutive Forms in English and Kurdish

Zanco Journal of Humanity Sciences, 2019
Knowing a language means knowing the morphemes of that language, which are the elemental units that constitute words of that language .Diminutives occur throughout the world’s languages, more often in order to represent typically smallness, slightness ...
Hamza Othman Muho
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Optical diagnosis of diminutive polyps in the Dutch Bowel Cancer Screening Program: Are we ready to start?

Endoscopy International Open, 2020
Background and study aims Implementation of optical diagnosis of diminutive polyps may potentially increase the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of colonoscopies.
Alouisa J.P. van de Wetering, Lonne W.T. Meulen, Roel M.M. Bogie, Quirine E.W. van der Zander, Ankie Reumkens, Bjorn Winkens, Hao Ran Cheng, Jan-Willem A. Straathof, Evelien Dekker, Eric Keulen, C. M. Bakker, Chantal Hoge, Rogier de Ridder, Ad A.M. Masclee, Silvia Sanduleanu-Dascalescu   +14 more
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Lotyšská substantivní deminutiva : morfologie sufixů

Linguistica Brunensia, 2013
The article is a survey of Latvian 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 except ...
Tereza Kabeláčová
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A split morphosyntactic analysis of diminutives in two Arabic varieties

Cogent Arts & Humanities
Contra the literature on Arabic prosodic morphology where templatic diminutive morphemes are often regarded as inflectional, this research paper argues for a distinction between their inflectional and derivational function in two Arabic varieties, i.e ...
Abdulazeez Jaradat, Linda Alkhawaja
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ON DIMINUTIVES. I. ENGLTSH [PDF]

Transactions of the Philological Society
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Rate and Risk Factors of the Advanced Adenomas Among Diminutive Colorectal Polyps

, 2021
Only 49 % of diminutive colorectal polyps are neoplastic, but a tiny percentage contains advanced histology. We aimed to determine the rate of advanced diminutive polyps and to evaluate the influence of age, gender, number, and localization.
ODABASI, Mehmet, ABANONU, Gul Babacan, MUFTUOGLU, Tolga, Comunoglu, Nil, GURLEYIK, Gunay, AKTEKIN, Ali   +5 more
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Expressing diminutive meaning in heritage Spanish: linking the heritage experience to diminutive use in everyday speech

Frontiers in Language Sciences
IntroductionThis paper studies the pragmatic force that heritage speakers may convey through the use of the diminutive in everyday speech. In particular, I analyze the use of the Spanish diminutive in 49 sociolinguistic interviews from a Spanish–English ...
Abel Cruz
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Diminutive and augmentative suffixes in portuguese [PDF]

, 2019
The aim of this diploma thesis is to prove that augmentative and diminutive suffixes are not always just bearers of senses "big" / "of big size", in the case of augmentative suffixes, and "small" / "of small size", in the case of diminutive suffixes, and
Horáková, Tereza
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Assessing size and subjective value of objects with diminutive names [PDF]

, 2017
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.
Olga Bialobrzeska, Michal Parzuchowski, Białobrzeska, Olga, Parzuchowski, Michał, Konrad Bocian, Bocian, Konrad   +5 more
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