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Evaluative Morphology: In Search of Universals
- Source: Studies in Language. International Journal sponsored by the Foundation “Foundations of Language”, Volume 21, Issue 3, Jan 1997, p. 533 - 575
Abstract
Various claims from the previous literature about the way in which evaluative morphology (particularly diminutives and augmentatives) operates are tested on a large sample of languages. Evaluative morphology is seen as being less morphologically marginal than has been implied in some of the recent literature, but nevertheless as showing some interesting cross-linguistic tendencies.
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