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Theoretical 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

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