Evaluative Morphology: In Search of Universals

Bauer, Laurie

doi:10.1075/sl.21.3.04bau

Article published In: Studies in Language
Vol. 21:3 (1997) ► pp.533–575

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Evaluative Morphology

In Search of Universals

Laurie Bauer | Victoria University of Wellington

Published online: 1 January 1997

https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.21.3.04bau

Various claims from the previous literature about the way in which evaluative morphology (particularly diminutives and augmentatives) operates are tested on a large sample of languages. Evaluative morphology is seen as being less morphologically marginal than has been implied in some of the recent literature, but nevertheless as showing some interesting cross-linguistic tendencies.

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