Chapter published in:
Topics in Theoretical Asian Linguistics: Studies in honor of John B. WhitmanEdited by Kunio Nishiyama, Hideki Kishimoto and Edith Aldridge
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 250] 2018
► pp. 97–122
Chapter 5Autosegmental evaluative morphology in Japanese
Augmentative and diminutive mimetics
Takashi Toyoshima | Tohoku Gakuin University
Augmentatives and diminutives have never been recognized as such in grammars of Japanese though they constitute well-recognized classes in many languages, under the rubric of evaluative morphology. This study puts forward a view that the Japanese augmentatives and diminutives are found predominantly in the mimetic vocabulary, and especially as autosegmental subphonemic morphemes, thus escaping recognitions as such, in otherwise segmental agglutinative morphology of Japanese.
Keywords: mimetics, evaluative morphology, autosegmental morphology, subphonemic morpheme, augmentative, diminutive, intensification
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Augmentatives and diminutives: Evaluative morphology
- 3.Mimetics in Japanese
- 3.1Lexicological status
- 3.2Morphophonology of mimetics
- 3.3Positional phonesthemes of segmental phonemes
- 4.Palatalization as diminutive
- 5.Voicing as augmentative
- 6.Evaluative morphology in Japanese mimetics
- 7.Concluding remarks
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Published online: 12 December 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.250.06toy
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.250.06toy
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