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1)<br>Date: 24 Jan 2013<br>From:<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Alexander Magidow <<a href="mailto:amagidow@gmail.com" target="_blank">amagidow@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Subject:Diminutive forms of demonstratives<br>

<br><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Hi everyone,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I was looking through what Sibuwayh has to say about demonstratives, and he lists diminutive forms (mu7aqqar) for the demonstratives. This may simply be an exercise in illustrating morphological processes, but I wonder whether anyone is familiar with modern dialects which have morphologically "diminutive" forms of the demonstratives.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Alf shukr,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Alex Magidow</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

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