Diminutives across Languages, Theoretical Frameworks and Linguistic Domains

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Diminutives across Languages, Theoretical Frameworks and Linguistic Domains

Edited by: Stela Manova , Laura Grestenberger and Katharina Korecky-Kröll

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Published/Copyright: 2024

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Volume 380 | Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]

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This volume addresses a number of issues in current morphological theory from the point of view of diminutive formation, such as the role of phonology in diminutives and hypocoristics and consequently its place in the overall architecture of grammar, i.e. phonology-first versus syntax/morphology-first theoretical analyses, diminutives in the L1 acquisition of typologically diverse languages, and the borrowing of non-diminutive morphology for the expression of diminutive meanings, among others.

Among the peculiarities of diminutive morphology discussed are the relation between diminutives and mass nouns, the avoidance of diminutives in plural contexts in some languages, and the relatively frequent semantic bleaching and reanalysis of diminutive forms cross-linguistically. Special attention is paid to the debate on the head versus modifier status of diminutive affixes (corresponding to high versus low diminutives in alternative analyses), with data from spoken and sign languages.

Overall, the volume addresses a number of topics that will be of interest to scholars of almost all linguistic subfields and persuasions.

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Stela Manova, Vienna; Laura Grestenberger, Vienna; Katharina Korecky-Kröll, Vienna, all Austria.

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1 Introduction: Diminutives across languages, theoretical frameworks and linguistic domains
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Stela Manova, Laura Grestenberger and Katharina Korecky-Kröll

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Part I: Theoretical approaches to diminutive formation
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2 On a low and a high position for diminutive non-manual markers in Italian Sign Language
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Elena Fornasiero

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3 Diminutive or singulative? The suffixes -in and -k in Russian
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Olga Kagan and Silva Nurmio

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4 Slavic diminutive morphology: An interplay of scope, templates and paradigms
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Stela Manova and Dmitri Sitchinava

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5 Diminutive formation in Spanish: Evidence for word morphology
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Ángel Alonso-Cortés and Matilde Vivancos

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6 The syllable as the basis for word formation: Evidence from diminutives, hypocoristics and clippings in English, Dutch, Afrikaans, Swedish and French
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Camiel Hamans

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Part II: Corpus-based and other empirical studies
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7 The Swedish suffix -is and its place within evaluative morphology
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Maria Rosenberg

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8 Diminutives and number: Theoretical predictions and empirical evidence from German in Austria
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Katharina Korecky-Kröll

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9 Diminutive verbs in the Austrian language area: Morphological and semantic challenges
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Sabine Wahl

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10 Challenges in analyzing Polish diminutives
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Iwona Burkacka

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11 Diminutives among other -k(a) words in colloquial Russian: Frequency and suffix variation
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Maria D. Voeikova

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Part III: Sociolinguistic, pragmatic and acquisitional studies
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12 Borrowed or inspired? Komi diminutive under Russian influence
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László Fejes

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13 Acquisition of diminutives in Russian and Estonian from a typological perspective
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Reili Argus and Victoria V. Kazakovskaya

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14 Morphological richness and priority of pragmatics over semantics in Italian, Arabic, German and English diminutives
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Wolfgang U. Dressler, Elisa Mattiello and Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun

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15 Diminutive variation in Austrian Standard German: A corpuslinguistic study
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Wolfgang U. Dressler and Jutta Ransmayr

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16 Gender discrepancies and evaluative gender shift: A cross-linguistic study within Distributed Morphology
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Morphology; Phonology; Syntax; Semantics

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Morphologists, Phonologists, Syntacticians, Semanticists, Typologists, Psycholinguists and Sociolinguists

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Diminutives across Languages, Theoretical Frameworks and Linguistic Domains

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Author / Editor information

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Table of contents

Frontmatter

Contents

1 Introduction: Diminutives across languages, theoretical frameworks and linguistic domains

2 On a low and a high position for diminutive non-manual markers in Italian Sign Language

3 Diminutive or singulative? The suffixes -in and -k in Russian

4 Slavic diminutive morphology: An interplay of scope, templates and paradigms

5 Diminutive formation in Spanish: Evidence for word morphology

6 The syllable as the basis for word formation: Evidence from diminutives, hypocoristics and clippings in English, Dutch, Afrikaans, Swedish and French

7 The Swedish suffix -is and its place within evaluative morphology

8 Diminutives and number: Theoretical predictions and empirical evidence from German in Austria

9 Diminutive verbs in the Austrian language area: Morphological and semantic challenges

10 Challenges in analyzing Polish diminutives

11 Diminutives among other -k(a) words in colloquial Russian: Frequency and suffix variation

12 Borrowed or inspired? Komi diminutive under Russian influence

13 Acquisition of diminutives in Russian and Estonian from a typological perspective

14 Morphological richness and priority of pragmatics over semantics in Italian, Arabic, German and English diminutives

15 Diminutive variation in Austrian Standard German: A corpuslinguistic study

16 Gender discrepancies and evaluative gender shift: A cross-linguistic study within Distributed Morphology

Index

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