The acquisition of diminutives : a cross-linguistic perspective / edited by Ineta Savickiene, Wolfgang U. Dressler.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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The Acquisition of Diminutives; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Introduction; Form and meaning of diminutives in Lithuanian child language; Diminutives in Russian at the early stagesof acquisition; The acquisition of diminutives in Croatian; Diminutives in Greek child language; The role of diminutives in the acquisition of Italian morphology; The acquisition of diminutives in Spanish; A longitudinal study of the acquisition of diminutives in Dutch1; Diminutives and Hypocoristics1 in Austrian German (AG)2; Acquisition of diminutives in Hungarian1.

This cross-linguistic volume innovates research of the acquisition of diminutives in the inflecting-fusional languages Lithuanian, Russian, Croatian, Greek, Italian, Spanish, German and Dutch, the agglutinating languages Turkish, Hungarian and Finnish and in the introflecting Hebrew. These languages differ in various aspects relevant for the acquisition of diminutives and the development of pragmatics in early child language. Diminutive formation often tends to be the first pattern of word formation to emerge. The main reason for this seems to lie in the pragmatic functions of endearment, empa.

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