Diminutives and Diminutive Expressions in Czech, German and English ? Searching for Boundaries

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Result language

čeština

Original language name

Deminutiva a deminutivní vyjádření v češtině, němčině a angličtině ? hledání hranic

Original language description

This is a description of searching structures o diminutives in Czech English and German and comparing them. The starting point of this study was the idea to compare diminutives in languages with very different frequency of diminutive usage. Recent studies claim diminutives can be realised not only as a synthetic form derived from a word but also as an analytic structure even ?inherently? in totally different lexemes ? and this all also in Czech. This study shows the differences in collocations between the analytic ?diminutives? and the synthetic ones and presents an opinion poll from more than 100 native speakers. Both results show that there is no need to distinguish between the analytic and synthetic diminutives. Analytic (and other non-synthetic) diminutives obviously do not fulfil the same functions as synthetic diminutives. A short remark at the end of the article re-opens the discussion on the universality of diminutives in languages.

Czech name

Deminutiva a deminutivní vyjádření v češtině, němčině a angličtině ? hledání hranic

Czech description

This is a description of searching structures o diminutives in Czech English and German and comparing them. The starting point of this study was the idea to compare diminutives in languages with very different frequency of diminutive usage. Recent studies claim diminutives can be realised not only as a synthetic form derived from a word but also as an analytic structure even ?inherently? in totally different lexemes ? and this all also in Czech. This study shows the differences in collocations between the analytic ?diminutives? and the synthetic ones and presents an opinion poll from more than 100 native speakers. Both results show that there is no need to distinguish between the analytic and synthetic diminutives. Analytic (and other non-synthetic) diminutives obviously do not fulfil the same functions as synthetic diminutives. A short remark at the end of the article re-opens the discussion on the universality of diminutives in languages.

Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

AI - Linguistics

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2011

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Korpusová lingvistika Praha 2011: 1 - InterCorp

ISBN

978-80-7422-114-9

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e-ISSN

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Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

168-185

Publisher name

Nakladatelství Lidové noviny / Ústav Českého národního korpusu

Place of publication

Praha

Event location

Praha

Event date

Sep 22, 2011

Type of event by nationality

EUR - Evropská akce

UT code for WoS article

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