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