Open AccessTheoretical Principles of Researching Diminutive
Author(s) -
E. Ye. Mintsys,
Yu. B. Mintsys
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of vasyl stefanyk precarpathian national university
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2413-2349
pISSN - 2311-0155
DOI - 10.15330/jpnu.2.2-3.29-35
Subject(s) - diminutive , linguistics , object (grammar) , semantics (computer science) , psychology , computer science , philosophy , programming language
The article presents a survey of the diminutive-related researches and considersdiminutive on all the language levels (morphological, lexical and syntactical). It analyzes theprincipal theories of the development of diminutive’s semantics and draws a distinction linebetween ‚smallness‛ and ‚diminutive‛. Diminutive is viewed versus augmentative and ispresented as a conceptual category, a system of semantic criteria which collectively denotediminution of objective characteristics of an object