Gorzycka, Diminutive Constructions in English. Dorota Gorzycka
Gorzycka, Diminutive Constructions in English
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Автор произведения: Dorota Gorzycka
Серия: Studies in Philosophy of Language and Linguistics
Жанр: Языкознание
Издательство: Ingram
isbn: 9783631824801
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Diminutive constructions in English provides an analysis of form and meaning of English diminutives with selected suffixes and suffix combinations: -let, -ling, -ette, -er+ -s, -kin + -s, and -ie+ -kin +-s. The empirical study is done within the framework of Construction Grammar, Construction Morphology as depicted by Geert Booij (2010; 2013), and a Construction-Grammar-based approach to translation proposed by Izabela Szymańska (2011). On the basis of an exhaustive corpus of language material, the author proposes new schemas for English diminutives and related formations. Moreover, the work provides supporting evidence for the distinction of analytic A + N constructions as a valid type of diminutive formation in the English language.