Diminutive Constructions in English

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 Szymanska (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.

About the author

Dorota Gorzycka holds a PhD degree in linguistics from Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland. Her research interests include Construction Gram-mar and Construction Morphology and the way they deal with morphological and syntactic phenomena which serve to create lexical units.

Product details

• Authors: Dorota Gorzycka
• Assisted by: Piotr Stalmaszczyk (Editor)
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2020
• EAN: 9783631812518
• ISBN: 978-3-631-81251-8
• No. of pages: 300
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 25 mm x 213 mm
• Weight: 458 g
• Illustrations: 15 Abb.
• Series: Studies in Philosophy of Language and Linguistics
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures