Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. 1 Introduction: Diminutives across languages, theoretical frameworks and linguistic domains 1
4. Part I: Theoretical approaches to diminutive formation
5. 2 On a low and a high position for diminutive non-manual markers in Italian Sign Language 37
6. 3 Diminutive or singulative? The suffixes -in and -k in Russian 65
7. 4 Slavic diminutive morphology: An interplay of scope, templates and paradigms 89
8. 5 Diminutive formation in Spanish: Evidence for word morphology 115
9. 6 The syllable as the basis for word formation: Evidence from diminutives, hypocoristics and clippings in English, Dutch, Afrikaans, Swedish and French 131
10. Part II: Corpus-based and other empirical studies
11. 7 The Swedish suffix -is and its place within evaluative morphology 153
12. 8 Diminutives and number: Theoretical predictions and empirical evidence from German in Austria 179
13. 9 Diminutive verbs in the Austrian language area: Morphological and semantic challenges 205
14. 10 Challenges in analyzing Polish diminutives 231
15. 11 Diminutives among other -k(a) words in colloquial Russian: Frequency and suffix variation 253
16. Part III: Sociolinguistic, pragmatic and acquisitional studies
17. 12 Borrowed or inspired? Komi diminutive under Russian influence 277
18. 13 Acquisition of diminutives in Russian and Estonian from a typological perspective 305
19. 14 Morphological richness and priority of pragmatics over semantics in Italian, Arabic, German and English diminutives 335
20. 15 Diminutive variation in Austrian Standard German: A corpuslinguistic study 363
21. 16 Gender discrepancies and evaluative gender shift: A cross-linguistic study within Distributed Morphology 387
22. Index 415