Olga Quindt

List of John Benjamins publications in which Olga Quindt is involved.

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Dammel, Antje and Olga Quindt 2016 How do evaluative derivational meanings arise? A bit of Geforsche and ForschereiPejoration, Finkbeiner, Rita, Jörg Meibauer and Heike Wiese (eds.), pp. 41–74 | Article
We investigate the rise of pejorative functions in word formation in a diachronic corpus-based case study on the German derivation patterns Ge-e and -(er)ei. Both patterns derive action nouns, adding the feature ‘frequentative’ and implying a dismissive/ironic attitude towards the action referred… read more
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