Form and function of expressive morphology: a case study of Russian

In this thesis, I conduct a detailed case study of expressive suffixes in Russian. I show that although the suffixes under investigation have the same function (“expressive”), they differ significantly in their formal properties. I identify two major semantic types of expressive suffixes: attitude a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Steriopolo, Olga
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: University of British Columbia 2008
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/424