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.
2020. Phrasal compounds can have adjectival heads: evidence from English. English Language and Linguistics 24:1 ► pp. 75 ff.
Hall, Kathleen Currie, Claire Allen, Tess Fairburn, Michael Fry, Michael McAuliffe & Kevin McMullin
2016. Measuring perceived morphological relatedness. Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique 61:1 ► pp. 31 ff.
Kamber, Julie & Richard Huyghe
2023. Concurrence morphologique et préfixation de haut degré : le cas de méga -, giga - et hypra -. Travaux de linguistique n° 86:1 ► pp. 59 ff.
King, Kendall & Gigliana Melzi
2004. Intimacy, Imitation and Language Learning: Spanish Diminutives in Mother-Child Conversation. First Language 24:2 ► pp. 241 ff.
King, Kendall A. & Colleen Gallagher
2008. Love, Diminutives, and Gender Socialization in Andean Mother–Child Narrative Conversations. In Spanish-Language Narration and Literacy, ► pp. 119 ff.
Körtvélyessy, Lívia & Pavol Štekauer
2018. Postfixation or inflection inside derivation. Folia Linguistica 52:2 ► pp. 351 ff.
Lívia Körtvélyessy & Pavol Štekauer
2020. Complex Words,
Meibauer, Jörg
2007. How marginal are phrasal compounds? Generalized insertion, expressivity, and I/Q-interaction. Morphology 17:2 ► pp. 233 ff.
Meibauer, Jörg
2013. Expressive compounds in German. Word Structure 6:1 ► pp. 21 ff.
Melissaropoulou, Dimitra & Angela Ralli
2008. Headedness in diminutive formation: Evidence from Modern Greek and its dialectal variation. Acta Linguistica Hungarica 55:1-2 ► pp. 183 ff.
Pakendorf, Brigitte
2017. Lamunkhin Even evaluative morphology in cross-linguistic comparison. Morphology 27:2 ► pp. 123 ff.
2020. Extravagant “fake” morphemes in Dutch. Morphological productivity, semantic profiles and categorical flexibility. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 16:3 ► pp. 425 ff.
Van Goethem, Kristel, Muriel Norde & Francesca Masini
This list is based on CrossRef data as of 14 march 2024. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers.
Any errors therein should be reported to them.