Dianne Bardsley

List of John Benjamins publications in which Dianne Bardsley is involved.

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Bardsley, Dianne and Jane Simpson 2009 Hypocoristics in New Zealand and Australian EnglishComparative Studies in Australian and New Zealand English: Grammar and beyond, Peters, Pam, Peter Collins and Adam Smith (eds.), pp. 49–70 | Article
New Zealand and Australia share a propensity to create new words and hypocoristic forms of existing words by adding -ie and -o suffixes (among others) to a base which is usually monosyllabic. While the creation of new words is driven by the need to refer quickly to new things, the creation of… read more
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