On the loss of vitality of diminutive in French

This paper considers the subject of the vitality of diminutives in French, lower than in other Romance languages. The author pays special attention to the use of this morpheme in Spanish, where it does have a higher frequency. The diminutive in French would be lexicalised and therefore it would have...

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Main Author: Samuel Bidaud
Format: Article
Language:Catalan
Published: Universidad Complutense de Madrid 2012-08-01
Series:Revista de Filología Románica
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Online Access:http://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/RFRM/article/view/38946