Augmentatives?

[Benjamin Chauvette]

Does anyone know of any typological or cognitive work that focuses
primarily on augmentatives?

I am familiar with the general literature dealing with diminutive and
augmentative morphology (e.g. Scalise 1984 and responses thereto; Matisoff
1992, Dressler & Barbaresi 1994; Jurafsky 1996), but am curious if there is
any other research, particularly unpublished manuscripts, that I am
overlooking.

Grandi's (2002) work on the Mediterranean area is great, but I have not
found anything similar for other areas.


Best,
Ben Chauvette


References
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Dressler, W.U. & L.M. Barbaresi. 1994. Morphopragmatics. Berlin: Mouton de
Gruyter.

Grandi, N. 2002. Development and Spread of Augmentative Suffixes in the
Mediterranean Area, in P. Ramat and T. Stolz (eds.), *Mediterranean
Languages, *171-190. Bochum: Dr. Brockmeyer University Press.

Jurafsky, D. 1996. Universal Tendencies in the Semantics of the Diminutive.
*Language* 72. 533-578.

Matisoff, J.A. 1992. The Mother of All Morphemes: augmentatives and
diminutives in a real and universal perspective, in M. Ratliff and E.
Schiller (eds.), *Papers from the First Annual Meeting of the Southeast
Asian Linguistics Society,* 293-349.

Scalise, S. 1984. *Generative Morphology.* Dordrecht: Foris.