Renewal and Innovation in the Emergence of Indo-European Evaluative Morphology

A diachronic survey in the field of the so-called evaluative morphology in some branches of the Indoeuropean family (above all Romance and Slavonic languages and Greek) reveals two different tendencies. On the one side suffixes that displayed a diminutive value in the earliest stages of these langua...

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Main Author: Nicola Grandi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3 2011-03-01
Series:Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/lexis/403