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Greek Diminutives in Gothic [PDF]
Transactions of the Philological Society, 2019 AbstractInvestigation of the outcomes of Greek diminutive nouns in the Gothic New Testament reveals a variety of translation strategies. The Gothic Version does not automatically carry over a word’s diminutive character. Most cases of Greek diminutives translated with Gothic diminutives are part of a Gothic pattern, centred on children. In other cases,
Wolfe, Brendan Nathanial, Brendan Wolfe
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THE SEMANTICS OF DIMINUTIVES IN THE KAJKAVIAN CROATIAN LITERARY LANGUAGE [PDF]
Fluminensia: Journal for Philological Research, 2016 The paper discusses the semantics of diminutives in the Kajkavian Croatian literary language, a polyfunctional standardized idiom used in the north-western part of Croatia from the 16th century until the 1830s.
Kristian Novak, Barbara Štebih Golub
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The derivation of diminutives from abstract noun bases in Bulgarian [PDF]
Južnoslovenski Filolog, 2013 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.
Nicolova Ruselina L.
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Russian Diminutives on the Social Network Instagram
RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2021 The article is devoted to the peculiarities of communication on the Russian-speaking segment of the social net Instagram. The aim of the article makes the analysis of diminutives - the words with diminutive-hypocoristic suffixes.
Armine A. Grigoryan, Elena N. Strelchuk
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Suffixal Diminutives and Augmentatives in Slovak [PDF]
Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology, 2011 The paper primarily focuses on the synchronical suffixal means forming diminutives and augmentatives in Slovak, presenting a basic research in these areas.
Ada Böhmerová
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, 1985 Despite renewed interest in morphological issues in recent times, the diminutive has largely been ignored, due, in part, to the lack of a comprehensive introduction to the topic. The present thesis aims to remedy this situation.
Nieuwenhuis, Paul
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Some Aspects Concerning Pragmatical use of Diminutives [PDF]
, 2005 У раду се анализира лексичко значење деминутивних именица, које се поред регуларног семантичко-деривационог односа између дсривационе основе и суфикса, одликује и додатним семантичким компонснтама оствареним у прагматичкој функцији.This paper presents ...
Јовановић, Владан
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Diminutives as Intimacy Expressions in English and Armenian
Armenian Folia Anglistika, 2015 Diminutives are an important means of expressing attitudes and emotions in both English and Armenian. Diminutives as intimacy expressions have been much studied in English, meanwhile this aspect of communication has received less scholarly attention in ...
Shushan Khachikyan
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LingVaria, 2018 Wziął braciszek strzelbiczkę, trafił myśliweczka w główeczkę… On (Un)conventional Uses of Diminutives in Polish Folk Songs The paper attempts to specify the function of diminutives in folk songs, and to find to what degree they can be considered a ...
Katarzyna Prorok
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Hypocoristics in the Ammani-Jordanian context: A Construction Morphology perspective
Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2023 The current study explores the patterns of hypocoristics in Ammani-Jordanian Arabic in view of Construction Morphology. The most common hypocoristic patterns are addressed with reference to the social factors (gender and age) that may contribute to the ...
Bassil Mashaqba +3 more
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