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How Peculiar Is Evaluative Morphology?, Gregory Stump
How Peculiar Is Evaluative Morphology?, Gregory Stump
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Many languages possess morphological rules which serve to express diminution or augmentation, endearment or contempt; examples are the Breton rule relating potr 'boy' to potrig 'little boy', the Shona rule relating chibikiso 'cooking tool' to zichibikiso 'huge cooking tool' and the Italian rule relating poeta 'poet' to poetastro 'bad poet'. Because of the possibility of interpreting diminution and augmentation in affective rather than purely objective terms (Wierzbicka, 1980: 530°.; Szymanek, 1988: io6ff.), morphological expressions of diminution or augmentation are not always discrete from those of endearment or contempt; that is, diminutives and augmentatives are frequently used as expressions of endearment …
Review Of Deconstructing Morphology: Word Formation In Syntactic Theory, By Rochelle Lieber, Gregory Stump
Review Of Deconstructing Morphology: Word Formation In Syntactic Theory, By Rochelle Lieber, Gregory Stump
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