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Syntactic Variation in Diminutive Suffixes: Russian, Kolyma Yukaghir, and Itelmen
Languages, 2017 This article presents a syntactic analysis and comparison of diminutive suffixes in Russian, Kolyma Yukaghir, and Itelmen, three genetically unrelated languages of the Russian Federation. Kolyma Yukaghir and Itelmen are on the verge of extinction.
Olga Steriopolo
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Diminutives: Exceptions to Harmonic Uniformity
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2016 Front-back harmony in Hungarian is governed by the root of words: it disregards suffixes in most cases. That is, a back-vowelled root (B) followed by any number of neutral-vowelled suffixes (N) will take a back-vowelled suffix (B+N+N+B), but a root with ...
Péter Rebrus, Péter Szigetvári
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Rhesis, 2023 The analysis of diminutives in Arabic dialects has been addressed by only a few studies. The main focus of the paper is on the analysis of diminutives in Syrian Arabic, not only from a formal and semantic point of view, but also from a pragmatic ...
Emanuela De Blasio
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Pragmatic (In)appropriateness of Diminutives in Russian Language
RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2021 The article discusses the issue of pragmatic meanings of diminutive forms in the Russian language from the point of view of politeness and speech act theories. The impact of diminutives on the illocutionary force and perlocutionary effects of speech acts
Victoriya Yu. Trubnikova
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DIMINUTIVES IN IVAN VAZOV’S NOVEL “UNDER THE YOKE” AND THEIR RUSSIAN EQUIVALENTS [PDF]
Езиков свят, 2023 Slavic languages as a whole are famous for the widespread use of diminutive forms and the variety of emotive-expressive nuances that diminutives can convey.
Mariya BAGASHEVA
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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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Półrocznik Językoznawczy Tertium, 2022 This study attempts to analyse the stylistic and cultural role of diminutives using examples from the short story collection The Last Wish by A. Sapkowski. With the rising popularity of the computer game series as well as the Netflix series based on The
Julia Nowak +2 more
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Small events. Verbal diminutives in the languages of the world
Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads, 2021 Diminutives are typically nouns. However, verbs can also be diminutivised, i.e. marked for reduced intensity, duration, seriousness or success of the action or event.
Jenny Audring +2 more
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Morphopragmatic View on the Ironic Use of Diminutives in Polish
Studies in Polish Linguistics, 2023 This paper focuses on the use of diminutives in Polish to express irony. The phenomenon is analyzed from the perspective of morphopragmatics (Dressler, Merlini Barbaresi 1994; Merlini Barbaresi 2015; Nagórko 2015) and reports on the results of a small ...
Paulina Polak
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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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