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Hypocoristic Formation in Gujarati
Catalan Journal of LinguisticsThis paper examines the morphology and phonology of hypocoristic formation in Gujarati, an Indo-Aryan language, within the framework of Optimality Theory and applying the Theory of Prosodic Morphology (McCarthy & Prince 1986).
Hemangini
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Вопросы ономастикиThe suffix -i has been regarded as a gender-neutral morpheme that communicates affection in Spanish. Previous studies have shown this diminutive morpheme to be more productive in relation to female hypocorisms.
Lorena Pérez-Hernández
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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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Epicentral effects on ‐ed/‐t inflectional variation in Australasian Englishes 1850–2020
World Englishes, Volume 41, Issue 3, Page 446-461, September 2022., 2022 Abstract This research examines the possibility of epicentral influence of AusE on NZE, focusing on morphosyntactic variation over 170 years in verb inflections (‐ed/‐t) for the past tense/participles of a set of 12 verbs including burn, learn, spell, spoil.
Pam Peters, Adam Smith, Minna Korhonen
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Surnames of Georgian Jews: Historical and Linguistic Aspects
Genealogy, 2023 The article provides an analysis of several aspects of the corpus of surnames used by Jews who lived after the end of the Middle Ages in the territory that today corresponds to the Republic of Georgia.
Alexander Beider
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Parameters of epicentral status
World Englishes, Volume 41, Issue 3, Page 462-474, September 2022., 2022 Abstract The present paper offers a fundamental discussion of constituent parameters and relevant issues associated with the concepts of pluricentricity and epicentres. It proposes an explicit division into a weak reading, highlighting the co‐existence of national varieties of languages, and a strong one, focusing on influence exerted by some varieties
Edgar W. Schneider
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Hypocoristic palatalization in Basque and historical applications
LingBaW, 2023 This paper examines the processes of expressive palatalization in the Basque diminutive. Basque has two forms of the diminutive, a list of inflectional suffixes and a method of palatalization with specific phonological requirements. A speaker will first
Jackson Wolf
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Imiona i derywaty odimienne używane na polskiej Warmii w XIX wieku
Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Linguistica, 2020 The article presents first names and derivatives derived from first names, used in families in Warmia in the 19th century. The material was gathered from the work of W. Barczewski, Kiermasy in Warmia.
Maria Biolik
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Variation of Proper Names in Nikola Znamensky by Fyodor Reshetnikov
Вопросы ономастики, 2023 The paper explores the variety of onomastic strategies in the short story Nikola Znamensky by Fyodor Reshetnikov, a follower of the ethnographic movement in the Russian literature of 1860s. It is typical for his works to omit the use of first names in the
Antonina P. Lipatova
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Lexical strata and vowel (dis)harmony: the Turkish transformation of a Balkan hypocoristic
Linguistica, 2016 In this study I explore the phonological behavior of the hypocoristic suffix /-oʃ/-/iʃ/ in Turkish. Such a suffix is common to many of the Balkan languages.
Mary Ann Walter
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