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The Fine-grained Structure of the Lexical Area: Gender, appreciatives and nominal suffixes in Spanish
Antonio Fábregas
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 39] 2024
► pp. 114–152

Chapter 4
Appreciative morphology in nouns (I)

Default diminutives

Article outline
  • 4.1The core argument in this chapter
  • 4.2Types of empirical behaviour with appreciative morphemes
    • 4.2.1A conceptual division that does not work
    • 4.2.2A grammatically-based taxonomy of appreciative morphemes
      • 4.2.2.1Group 1. The default appreciative class: -it-
      • 4.2.2.2Group 2: The class of -illo
      • 4.2.2.3Group 3: The class of -ajo
    • 4.2.3Interim summary
  • 4.3Interfixes in appreciative morphemes and beyond
    • 4.3.1Classes of interfixes
    • 4.3.2Interfixes with diminutives
  • 4.4Analysis: The core structure of appreciatives
  • 4.5-it-: Structural and semantic properties
    • 4.5.1Structural properties
    • 4.5.2Infixation cases
    • 4.5.3The distribution of interfixes with default diminutives
    • 4.5.4Manito, fotito, motito
  • Note