MACEDONIAN DIMINUTIVES

Resources:

Sl=Slavic, B=Bulgarian, S=Serbian, C=Croatian, R=Russian, Cz=Czech, P=Polish, Bruss=Byelorussian, GR=Greek, L=Lithuanian, U=Ukrainian, IE=IndoEuropean, Sp=Spanish

Morphology/Word-Formation/Derivation

  • 1990. “-ushk- v iazike rukorsnykh pamiatnikov 17 veka.” Zeitschrift fur Slawistik 35:2, 238-245. R PG1 Z43
  • Andrews, Edna. 1989. “Suffix –k-a/-ka in modern Russian.” In From Sign to Text: Semiotic View of Communication, ed. Yishai Tobin, pp-pp. Philadelphia, NJ: J. Benjamins. R P99 F75 1989
  • Andrews, Edna. 1996. The Semantics of Suffixation. Munchen: LINCOM Europa. PG 2175.A747 1996
  • Bratus, B.V. 1969. The Formation and Expressive Use of Diminutives. Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press.
  • Crater, Virginia Loula. 1938. Morphological and Semasiological Aspects of the Diminutive in English. University of Florida Dissertation.
  • Dressler, Wolfgang U. and Lavinia Merlini Barbaresi. 1994. Morphopragmatics: Diminutives and Intensifiers in Italian, German, and Other Languages. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
  • Fentslova, Marie. 1985. Rol’ znacheniia iskhodnogo slova pri obrazovanii znacheniia deminutiva, issledovannaia na materiale razgovornoi rechi russkogo i cheshskogo iazykov. Ceskoslovenska Rusistika 30:5 (October), 221-227. R, Cz
  • Friedman, Victor A. 1993. “Macedonian.” In The Slavonic Languages, ed. Bernard Comrie and Greville G. Corbett, 249-305. London: Routledge. M
  • Gracia, Luisa and Lidia Turon. 2000. On Appreciative Suffixes. Acta Linguistica Hungarica: An International Journal of Linguistics 47:1-4, 231-47. (Catalan) (online)
  • Greenberg (suffix –che) in book of Appellative M

(24) “In the three Balkan Slavic languages, the –ica suffix may denote marked pejorative forms, which acquire only the –o desinence… These –ica derivatives are unmarked for gender and may be used in addressing males or females.

(24, note 19) babička is diminutive form.

  • Haas, Mary R. 1972. “The Expression of the Diminutive.” In Studies in Linguistics in Honor of G.L.Trager, ed. M. E. Smith (Janua linguarium, Series maior 52). The Hague: Mouton, 148-152.
  • Hraste, Mate. 1954. Sufiksi za tvorbu deminutiva i augmentativa u cakavskim govorima srednje Dalmacije. Zagreb, Croatia: Zbornik radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Zagrebu, knjiga 2.
  • Karaangova, Margarita. 1976. Sufiksi za emotsianalna otsenka sus spetsialna konsonantna kharakteristika v beloruskiia i bulgarskiia ezik. Sopostavitelno Ezikoznanie/Sopostavitel’noe Jazykoznanie/Contrastive Linguistics 1:5, 116-125. B, Bruss
  • Klimas, Antanas. 1974. Studies on Word-formation in Lithuanian. Lituanus 20:3, (Fall), on website 3 05.htm. L
  • Kolomiets, K.T. 1988. Slovoobrazovatel’nye formy prilagatel’nykh s umenshitel’no-laskatel’nym znacheniem v slavianskikh iazykakh: Sovremennoe sostoianie i doistoricheskoe razvitie. Izvestiia Akademii Nauk, Seriia Literatury i Iazyka 47:6 (November-December), 550-558. Sl PG6.A553
  • Koneski, Blaže. 1986. “Istorija na Makedonskiot jazik.” Skopje, Macedonia: Kultura. M
  • In particular p105 (-ok) as in momok, p209 – richness of suffixes of emotional characterization.
  • Koneski, Blaže. 1976. “Gramatika na Makedonskiot jazik.” Skopje, Macedonia: Kultura. M PG 1158.K66 1976
  • Kramer, Christina. 1999. “Macedonian for beginner and intermediate students.” Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.
  • Lunt, H. 1952. Gramatika na nacionalniot literaturen jazik. Skopje: Državno knigoizdatelstvo.
  • Markov, B. 1988. Obrazuvanje na pridavkite vo Makedonskiot jazik. Skopje: Ogledalo. (p100 for adverbial derivation)
  • Mladenova, Olga. 2001. Neuter Designations of Humans and Norms of Social Interaction in the Balkans. Anthropological Linguistics 43:1 (spring), 18-53. B, S, C P1.A6
  • Munro, Pamela. 1988. “Diminutive Syntax.” In In Honor of Mary Haas, ed. William Shipley. The Hague: Mouton, 539-555.
  • Polterauer, Ilona. 1981. Die Deminutiva in der moderner Russischen Schriftsprache. Dissertationen der Univ. Salzburg. Vienna, 148. R PG2205.P6 1981
  • Stankiewicz, Edward. 1961. Grammatical Neutralization in Slavic Expressive Forms. Word 17-2 (August), 128-45.
  • Stankiewicz, Edward. 1964. “Problems of Emotive Language.” In Approaches to Semiotics, ed. T.A. Sebeck, pp-pp. Where: where. P87.I5
  • Stankiewicz, Edward. 1986. “The Slavic Languages: Unity in Diversity.” New York: Mouton de Gruyter. Sl PG59 .S67 1986
  • Stefanescu, Ioana. 1992. On Diminutive Suffixes. Folia Linguistica: Acta Societatis Linguisticae Europear 26:3-4, 339-356. ? P9.F7
  • Trommelen, Mieke. 1984. The Syllable in Dutch: with special reference to diminutive formation. Dordrecht, Holland: Foris Publications.
  • Usikova, R.P. 1985. Makedonskii Jezik. Skopje: Makedonska kniga.
  • Vaseva, Ivanka. 1977. Narechiia s suffiksom sub’ektivnoi otsenki v russkom i bolgarskom iazykhah. Sopostavitelno Ezikoznanie/Sopostavitel’noe Jazykoznanie/Contrastive Linguistics 2:6, 9-22. B, R
  • Vasil’kova, N. N. 1982. Vasha sliapochka na bolvanochke. Russkaia Rech: Nauchno-Populiarnyi Zhurnal 2 (Mar-Apr), 83-86. R PG 2003.R85
  • Williams, Mariana Stoyanova. 1996. Diminutivity in Bulgarian: A Formal and Semantic Study. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Dissertation. B

Semantics

  • ?. year?. Diminutives and Depreciatives: Semantic Representation for Derivational Categories. Quaderni di Semantica 5:1, 123-130. ?
  • Gracia, Luisa, Turon Lidia. 2000. On Appreciative Suffixes. Acta Linguistica Hungarica: An International Journal of Linguistics, 47:1-4, 231-47. (Catalan) (online)
  • Haas, Mary R. 1972. “The Expression of the Diminutive.” In Studies in Linguistics in honor of Prof. George L. Trager, ed. M. Estellie Smith, 148-152. The Hague: Mouton. ?
  • Jurafsky, Dan. 1993. ”Universals in the Semantics of the Diminutive.” In Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Meeting of he Berkeley Linguistics Society February 12-15 1983, ed. Joshua S. Guenter. Berkeley, Berkeley Ling. Soc, 423-426. Sl
  • Jurafsky, Daniel. 1996. Universal tendencies in the Semantics of the Diminutive. Language: Journal of the Linguistic Society 72:3, 533-578. Sl P1 L3
  • Moravscik, Edith. YEAR? “Semantics of Reduplication.” In Stanford Working Papers on Language Universals. StanfordUniversity, pages???.
  • Nichols, Johanna. 1970s??? Diminutive Consonant Sound Symbolism. Language, ???
  • ------, Ottula, Hinton. 1994. Sound Symbolism. Various articles? CambridgeUniversity Press.
  • Popoff-Bocker, E. 1973. A Semantic Approach to the Diminutive Suffixes in Russian. In VII Miedzynarodowy Kongres Slawistow w Warszawe 1973, 408-409. Warsaw: PAN. R
  • Sydorenko, Halina. Ukrainian Sound Symbolism and Diminutive Sounds and Morphology… ??
  • Vaseva, Ivanka. 1977. Narechiia s suffiksom sub”ektivnoi otsenki v russkom i bolgarskom iazykhah. Sopostavitelno Ezikoznanie/Sopostavitel’noe Jazykoznanie/Contrastive Linguistics 2:6, 9-22. B, R
  • Volek, Bronislava. 1987. Emotive Signs in Language and Semantic Functioning of Derived Nouns in Russian. Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern EuropeAmsterdam: John Benjamins Press 24. R PG 2585.V54 1987
  • Volek, Bronislava. 1988. “Semantic Properties of Noun Diminutives: Based on Czech and Russian Data.” In American Contributions to the 10th International Congress of Slavists, ed. Alexander M. Schenker. Columbus, OH: Slavica, 415-421. Cz, R PG11.I5 1988b
  • Vorotnikov, Iu. L. 1988. Miloe i maloe. Ruskii iazyk v shkole: metodicheskii zhurnal 6 (Nov.-Dec.), 62-66. R
  • Wierzbicka, Anna. 1980. Translatability and Semantic Primitives: Diminutives. Chapter 2 of Lingua Mentalis, 53-59. Australia: Academic Press.
  • Wierzbicka, Anna. 1984. Diminutives and Depreciatives: Semantic Representation for Derivational Categories. Quaderni di Semantica: Rivista internazionale di semantica teorica e applicata/An international journal of theoretical and, 5:1(9) (June), 123-130. P
  • Williams, Mariana Stoyanova. 1996. Diminutivity in Bulgarian: A Formal and Semantic Study. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Dissertation. B

Socio-linguistics/Pragmatics

  • “On a larger scale, the mountain-hardened South Slavs are contrasted to the soft Russians and Poles with their “lack of highland energy,” “soft languages,” and love of diminutives” (Dvorniković 1939:283). In Violent Highlanders and Peaceful Lowlanders – Uses and Abuses of Ethno-geography in the Balkans from Versailles to Dayton, Marko Živković (University of Chicago). Sl
  • Bulatetska, Ludmila. 1996. “Linguistic Means of Expressing Distance between Interlocutors in Ukrainian.” NOT SURE HOW TO CITE THIS? U
  • Carnicer, Ramon. 1976. Masculinos y femeninos en funcion diminutive y aumentativa.Yelmo 26 (December 1975 – January 1976), 38-39. in Spanish PC4065.Y44 choices of gender – masc=deminutive, fem=augment.
  • Fee, Jane and David Ingram. 1982. Reduplication as aStrategy of Phonological Development. Journal of Child Language 9, 41-54.
  • Fentslova, Marie. 1985. Rol’ znacheniia iskhodnogo slova pri obrazovanii znacheniia diminutiva, issledovannaia na materiale razgovornoi rechi russkogo i cheshskogo iazykov. Ceskoslovenska Rusistika 30: (October), 221-227. R, Cz PG1.C4
  • Frohlich, Frantisek. 1995. The Advantages and Disadvantages of Czech as a Diminutive-Rich language in Translating Andersen. Norwish Papers: Papers in European Languages, Literatures, and Culture 3 (November), 6-10. Cz
  • Giles, Howard et al. 1987. “Speech Accomodation Theory: The Next Decade and Beyond.” In Communication Yearbook 10, ed. M. McLaughlin, 13-48. Newbury Park, CA: Sage. P87.C5974
  • Greenberg, Joseph. 1978. “How Does a Language Acquire Gender Markers?” In Joseph Greenberg, ed. Universals of Human Language vol. 3, 49-82.
  • Perelmutter, Renee. 2001-2003.Glosses.net: Inflection vs. derivation, online at
  • Street, Jr., Richard and Howard Giles. 1982. “Speech Accomodation Theory: A Social Cognitive Approach to Language and Speech Behavior.” In Social Cognition and Communication, ed. Roloff and Berger, 193-226. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage. HM132.S566 1982
  • (in particular 213-214, summary of CAT)
  • revised in Giles 1987
  • diminutives and code-switching?
  • cognitive and affective factors of communication accommodation theory?
  • goes along with Wierzbicka’s view of diminutives as a strategy of building a relationship to things and with people, i.e. diminutives are not necessarily about the object or its size.
  • Šipka, Danko. “A Taxonomy of Cross-cultural Differences in Slavic Languages.” P, SC
  • Stefanovski, Ljupčo. 1997. The Apologetic Strategy in Macedonian. Balkanistica 10, 372-380. M DR1.B34
  • Visson, Lyn. 1987. “something about politics in language.” In New Studies in Russian Language and Literature, ed. Anna Lisa Crone, Catherine V. Chvany, pp-pp. Columbus, OH: Slavica. R PG 2026.A76 N48 1987
  • I didn’t think this article was relevant
  • Worth, Dean S. 1987. “Formal and Aesthetic Functions of Diminutives in the Russian Lament.” In New Studies in Russian Language and Literature, ed. Anna Lisa Crone, Catherine V. Chvany, 279-290. Columbus, OH: Slavica. R PG 2026.A76 N48 1987

Child Acquisition

  • Dalakakis, J. 1997. “Developmental Language Impairment and Diminutive Formation in Greek.” In Proceedings of the 21stAnnualBostonUniversity Conference on Language Development, I-II, ed. Elizabeth Hughes, 115-123. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla. Gr
  • Ely, Richard. 1996. “Why Didn’t You Talk to Your Mommy, Honey?” Parents’ and Children’s Talk about Talk. Research on Language and Social Interaction 29:1, 7-25. ? girls hear more diminutives than boys
  • Frigo, L. and McDonald, J.L. 1998. Properties of Phonological Markers that Affect the Acquisition of Gender-like Subclasses. Journal of Memory and Language 39, 218-245.
  • Gillis, Steven. 1998. Studies in the Acquisition of Number and Diminutive Marking. Wilrijk, Belgium: Universiteit Antwerpen.
  • Kempe, Vera, and Brooks, Patricia J. 2001. The Role of Diminutives in the Acquisition of Russian Gender: Can Elements of Child-Directed Speech Aid in Learning Morphology? Language Learning 51:2 (June), 221-256. R
  • Kernan, Keith T. and B. G. Blount. 1966. The Acquisition of Spanish Grammar by Mexican Children. Anthropological Linguistics, 8:9 (December), pp-pp. ?
  • Olmsted, Hugh. 1994. “Diminutive Morphology of Russian Children: A Simplified Subset of Nominal Declension in Language Acquisition.” In Alexander Lipson: In Memoriam, preface by Charles E. Gribble, 165-209. Columbus, OH: Slavica. R PG 2026.L56 A44 1994

Dialectology

  • Radic, Prvoslav. 1984. Imenicki deminutivni sufiksi –ce i –ice u govoru sela Miloseva u Velikom Pomoravlju. Juznoslovenski filolog 40, 149-165. S

Names

  • Schmalstieg, William R. 1982. “Lithuanian Names.” Lituanus 28:3, 3/82 3 01.htm L

History

  • Ocherk deminutivnoi derivatsionoi systemy v istorii cheshskoho literaturnogo jazyka – konets 13 – seredina 20 vv. Cz PG 4175.N47 1980
  • Georgakas, Demetrios. 1982. –ica suffix in Greek – is it a Slavic borrowing or is it native to Greek? Athens: Academy of Athens.

Other

  • Hoenigswald, H. M. 1971. Diminutives and Tatpurusas: The IE Trend toward Endocentity. Journal of IE Studies 5:2, 9-13. IE CB201.J68
  • Kouwenberg, Silvia, and Darlene La Charite. 2001. “The Mysterious Case of diminutive yala-yala.” In Due Respect: Essays on English and English-Related Creoles in the Caribbean in honour of professor Robert Le Page, ed. R.B. Le Page, Robert Brock, Pauline Christie, pp-pp. Barbados: University of the West Indies Press.
  • Trigo, Loren. 1991. Scales and Diminutivization. Linguistic Inquiry 22, 578-583.

John Benjamins Press (Amsterdam)

  • Dressler, Wolfgang U. and Lavinia Merlini Barbaresi 2001. “Morphopragmatics of diminutives and augmentatives: On the priority of pragmatics over semantics”. In Perspectives on Semantics, Pragmatics, and Discourse: A Festschrift for Ferenc Kiefer, Kenesei, István and Robert M. Harnish (eds.), 43–58.
  • Hentschel, Elke. 2003. “Serbian. The expression of gender in Serbian”. In Gender Across Languages: The linguistic representation of women and men. Volume 3, Hellinger, Marlis and Hadumod Bußmann (eds.), 287–309.
  • Weijer, Jeroen van de. 2002. “An Optimality Theoretical analysis of the Dutch diminutive”. Linguistics in the Netherlands 2002, Broekhuis, Hans and Paula Fikkert (eds.), 199–209.