ON CATEGORIZING NOUN DIMINUTIVES IN GERMAN (Substantivische Diminutiva im Deutschen: Versuch einer Kategorisierung)

• Authors: Schwenk Hans-Jorg
• Languages of publication: DE

Abstracts

EN

The present paper deals with noun diminutives in German and aims at attempting to categorize them. The author shows that noun diminutives, although the difference between them and the non-diminutives is a strictly quantitative one, nevertheless constitute a lexical category. It could be proven that the question whether a lingual entity belongs to vocabulary or grammar does not depend on the underlying mechanism of formation and that the qualitative character of an item or a word formation does not decide on its lexicality.

Keywords

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DERIVATION; GRAMMATICALITY; INFLECTION; LEXICALITY; NOUN DIMINUTIVES

• Publisher: Wydział I Nauk Humanistycznych i Społecznych PAN, Społeczna Akademia Nauk w Łodzi
• Journal: Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 57
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 275-283
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Schwenk Hans-Jorg

• Hans-Jorg Schwenk, Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej, Wydzial Humanistyczny, Instytut Germanistyki, Zaklad Jezykoznawstwa Germanskiego, Plac Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej 4A, 20-031 Lublin, Poland

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11PLAAAA09612